On Ando's inequalities for convex and concave functions
Abstract
For positive semidefinite matrices and , Ando and Zhan proved the inequalities and , for any unitarily invariant norm, and for any non-negative operator monotone on with inverse function . These inequalities have very recently been generalised to non-negative concave functions and non-negative convex functions , by Bourin and Uchiyama, and Kosem, respectively. In this paper we consider the related question whether the inequalities , and , obtained by Ando, for operator monotone with inverse , also have a similar generalisation to non-negative concave and convex . We answer exactly this question, in the negative for general matrices, and affirmatively in the special case when . In the course of this work, we introduce the novel notion of -dominated majorisation between the spectra of two Hermitian matrices, where 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