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Extensions of Brunn-Minkovski's inequality to multiple matrices

Functional Analysis 2021-12-23 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

Yuan and Leng (2007) gave a generalization of Ky Fan's determinantal inequality, which is a celebrated refinement of the fundamental Brunn-Minkowski inequality (det(A+B))1/n(detA)1/n+(detB)1/n(\det (A+B))^{1/n} \ge (\det A)^{1/n} +(\det B)^{1/n}, where AA and BB are positive semidefinite matrices. In this note, we first give an extension of Yuan-Leng's result to multiple positive definite matrices, and then we further extend the result to a larger class of matrices whose numerical ranges are contained in a sector. Our result improves a recent result of Liu [Linear Algebra Appl. 508 (2016) 206--213].

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@article{arxiv.2002.12560,
  title  = {Extensions of Brunn-Minkovski's inequality to multiple matrices},
  author = {Yongtao Li and Lihua Feng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12560},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages. This is the final version. Any suggestions and comments are welcome. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Yongtao Li)