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In this paper we introduce and study a functional calculus for bicomplex linear bounded operators. The study is based on the decomposition of bicomplex numbers and of linear operators using the two nonreal idempotents. We show that, due to the presence of zero divisors in the bicomplex numbers, the spectrum of a bounded operator is unbounded. We therefore introduce a different spectrum (called reduced spectrum) which is bounded and turns out to be the right tool to construct the bicomplex holomorphic functional calculus. Finally we provide some properties of the calculus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In this paper we use the notion of slice monogenic functions [F. Colombo, I. Sabadini, D.C. Struppa, Slice monogenic functions, Israel J. Math., in press] to define a new functional calculus for an n-tuple T of not necessarily commuting operators. This calculus is different from the one discussed in [B. Jefferies, Spectral Properties of Noncommuting Operators, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1843, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004] and it allows the explicit construction of the eigenvalue equation for the n-tuple T based on a new notion of spectrum for T. Our functional calculus is consistent with the Riesz–Dunford calculus in the case of a single operator. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In a recent work, Colombo (in press) , we developed a functional calculus for bounded operators defined on quaternionic Banach spaces. In this paper we show how the results from the above-mentioned work can be extended to the unbounded case, and we highlight the crucial differences between the two cases. In particular, we deduce a new eigenvalue equation, suitable for the construction of a functional calculus for operators whose spectrum is not necessarily real. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]