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On Ando's inequalities for convex and concave functions

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

For positive semidefinite matrices AA and BB, Ando and Zhan proved the inequalities f(A)+f(B)f(A+B)||| f(A)+f(B) ||| \ge ||| f(A+B) ||| and g(A)+g(B)g(A+B)||| g(A)+g(B) ||| \le ||| g(A+B) |||, for any unitarily invariant norm, and for any non-negative operator monotone ff on [0,)[0,\infty) with inverse function gg. These inequalities have very recently been generalised to non-negative concave functions ff and non-negative convex functions gg, by Bourin and Uchiyama, and Kosem, respectively. In this paper we consider the related question whether the inequalities f(A)f(B)f(AB)||| f(A)-f(B) ||| \le ||| f(|A-B|) |||, and g(A)g(B)g(AB)||| g(A)-g(B) ||| \ge ||| g(|A-B|) |||, obtained by Ando, for operator monotone ff with inverse gg, also have a similar generalisation to non-negative concave ff and convex gg. We answer exactly this question, in the negative for general matrices, and affirmatively in the special case when ABA\ge ||B||. In the course of this work, we introduce the novel notion of YY-dominated majorisation between the spectra of two Hermitian matrices, where YY is itself a Hermitian matrix, and prove a certain property of this relation that allows to strengthen the results of Bourin-Uchiyama and Kosem, mentioned above.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0099,
  title  = {On Ando's inequalities for convex and concave functions},
  author = {Koenraad M. R. Audenaert and Jaspal Singh Aujla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0099},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages