It is shown that the numerical range of a linear operator on a Hilbert space is a (complete) (1+√2)-spectral set. The proof relies, among other things, on the behavior of the Cauchy transform of the conjugates of holomorphic functions.
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Crouzeix et al. (2017) studied this question.
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