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Monotonicity for entrywise functions of matrices

Functional Analysis 2007-10-09 v2

Abstract

We characterize real functions ff on an interval (α,α)(-\alpha,\alpha) for which the entrywise matrix function [aij][f(aij)][a_{ij}] \mapsto [f(a_{ij})] is positive, monotone and convex, respectively, in the positive semidefiniteness order. Fractional power functions are exemplified and related weak majorizations are shown.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1235,
  title  = {Monotonicity for entrywise functions of matrices},
  author = {Fumio Hiai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1235},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

23 pages; Section 6 is considerably improved

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