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Klein's trace inequality and superquadratic trace functions

Functional Analysis 2020-01-29 v1

Abstract

We show that if ff is a non-negative superquadratic function, then ATrf(A)A\mapsto\mathrm{Tr}f(A) is a superquadratic function on the matrix algebra. In particular, \begin{align*} \tr f\left( {\frac{{A + B}}{2}} \right) +\tr f\left(\left| {\frac{{A - B}}{2}}\right|\right) \leq \frac{{\tr {f\left( A \right)} + \tr {f\left( B \right)} }}{2} \end{align*} holds for all positive matrices A,BA,B. In addition, we present a Klein's inequality for superquadratic functions as Tr[f(A)f(B)(AB)f(B)]Tr[f(AB)] \mathrm{Tr}[f(A)-f(B)-(A-B)f'(B)]\geq \mathrm{Tr}[f(|A-B|)] for all positive matrices A,BA,B. It gives in particular an improvement of the Klein's inequality for non-negative convex function. As a consequence, some variants of the Jensen trace inequality for superquadratic functions have been presented.

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@article{arxiv.2001.10013,
  title  = {Klein's trace inequality and superquadratic trace functions},
  author = {Mohsen Kian and Mohammad W. Alomari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10013},
  year   = {2020}
}
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