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Let D be the unit disk. Kutzschebauch and Studer (Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 51 (2019) 995–1004) recently proved that, for each continuous map A:D¯→SL(2,C), which is holomorphic in D, there exist continuous maps E,F:D¯→sl(2,C), which are holomorphic in D, such that A=eEeF. Also they asked if this extends to arbitrary compact bordered Riemann surfaces. We prove that this is possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We show that any element of the special linear group SL2(R) is a product of two exponentials if the ring R is either the ring of holomorphic functions on an open Riemann surface or the disc algebra. This is sharp: one exponential factor is not enough since the exponential map corresponding to SL2(C) is not surjective. Our result extends to the linear group GL2(R), where it is sharp as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The richly developed theory of complex manifolds plays important roles in our understanding of holomorphic functions in several complex variables. It is natural to consider manifolds that will play similar roles in the theory of holomorphic functions in several non‐commuting variables. In this paper we introduce the class of nc‐manifolds, the mathematical objects that at each point possess a neighborhood that has the structure of an nc‐domain in the d‐dimensional nc‐universeMd. We illustrate the use of such manifolds in free analysis through the construction of the non‐commutative Riemann surface for the matricial square root function. A second illustration is the construction of a non‐commutative analog of the elementary symmetric functions in two variables. For any symmetric domain in M2 we construct a two‐dimensional non‐commutative manifold such that the symmetric holomorphic functions on the domain are in bijective correspondence with the holomorphic functions on the manifold. We also derive a version of the classical Newton–Girard formulae for power sums of two non‐commuting variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]