Spectrum of banach valued holomorphic functions and polar sets.

Let A be a complex unital Banach algebra and D be a non-empty open connected subset of C. Let f be a holomorphic A-valued function on D. We set: ∑(f) = {z ∈ D | f(z) ∉ ∈ Inv(A)}, where Inv(A) is the set of all invertible elements in A. In this paper, we give a description of ∑(f) using the classical spectrum of f(z) (z ∈ D). Moreover, within the framework of this paper, we give a partial positive answer to the following problem which was posed by B. Aupetit: If the usual spectrum σ(f(z)) is polar for all z ∈ D, is it true that ∑(f) is polar? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]