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Completely strong superadditivity of generalized matrix functions

Functional Analysis 2014-10-09 v1

Abstract

We prove that generalized matrix functions satisfy a block-matrix strong superadditivity inequality over the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. Our result extends a recent result of Paksoy-Turkmen-Zhang (V. Paksoy, R. Turkmen, F. Zhang, Inequalities of generalized matrix functions via tensor products, Electron. J. Linear Algebra 27 (2014) 332-341.). As an application, we obtain a short proof of a classical inequality of Thompson (1961) on block matrix determinants.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1958,
  title  = {Completely strong superadditivity of generalized matrix functions},
  author = {Minghua Lin and Suvrit Sra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1958},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, no figures

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