%0 Journal Article %T A local form for the automorphisms of the spectral unit ball %A Pascal J. Thomas %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X If F is an automorphism of the spectral unit ball, we show that, in a neighborhood of any cyclic (i.e. non-derogatory) matrix of the ball, the map F can be written as conjugation by a holomorphically varying non singular matrix. This provides a shorter proof of a theorem of J. Rostand, with a slightly stronger result. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3396v1