Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2019
Let ${\mathcal{A}}$ be a complex unital Banach algebra, let $a$ be an element in it and let $0<\unicode[STIX]{x1D716}<1$. In this article, we study the upper and lower hemicontinuity and joint continuity of the condition spectrum and its level set maps in appropriate settings. We emphasize that the empty interior of the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D716}$-level set of a condition spectrum at a given $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D716},a)$ plays a pivotal role in the continuity of the required maps at that point. Further, uniform continuity of the condition spectrum map is obtained in the domain of normal matrices.
The second author thanks the University Grants Commission (UGC), India for the financial support (Ref. no. 23/12/2012(ii)EU-V) provided as a form of Research Fellowship to carry out this research work at IIT Hyderabad.