Klein's trace inequality and superquadratic trace functions
Functional Analysis
2020-01-29 v1
Abstract
We show that if is a non-negative superquadratic function, then 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 . In addition, we present a Klein's inequality for superquadratic functions as for all positive matrices . 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}
}