ABSTRACT
Several new verifiable conditions are established for matrices of the form to have the numerical range equal the convex hull of at most k ellipses. For k = 2, these conditions are also necessary, provided that the ellipses are co-centred.
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Acknowledgments
The results are partially based on the Capstone project of the first named author [TG] under the supervision of the second named author [IMS]. This work was supported in part by Faculty Research funding from the Division of Science and Mathematics, New York University Abu Dhabi.
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