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Generality of Lieb's Concavity Theorem

Functional Analysis 2019-06-04 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We show that Lieb's concavity theorem holds more generally for any unitarily invariant matrix function ϕ:H+nR\phi:\mathbf{H}^n_+\rightarrow \mathbb{R} that is monotone and concave. Concretely, we prove the joint concavity of the function (A,B)ϕ[(Bqs2KApsKBqs2)1s](A,B) \mapsto\phi\big[(B^\frac{qs}{2}K^*A^{ps}KB^\frac{qs}{2})^{\frac{1}{s}}\big] on H+m×H+n\mathbf{H}_+^m\times\mathbf{H}_+^n, for any KCm×n,s(0,1],p,q[0,1],p+q1K\in \mathbb{C}^{m\times n},s\in(0,1],p,q\in[0,1], p+q\leq 1.

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@article{arxiv.1906.00002,
  title  = {Generality of Lieb's Concavity Theorem},
  author = {De Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00002},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.02194

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