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We derive an expression for the product of the Pfaffians of two skew-symmetric matrices A and B as a sum of products of the traces of powers of AB and an expression for the inverse matrix A$^{-1}$, or equivalently B$^{-1}$, as a…

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We present a treasure trove of open problems in matrix and operator inequalities, of a functional analytic nature, and with various degrees of hardness.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-02 K. M. R. Audenaert , F. Kittaneh

The matrix version of the entropy-power inequality for real or complex coefficients and variables is proved using a transportation argument that easily settles the equality case. An application to blind source extraction is given.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Olivier Rioul , Ram Zamir

In this paper, we prove a trace inequality $\text{Tr}[ f(A) A^s B^s ] \leq \text{Tr}[ f(A) (A^{1/2} B A^{1/2} )^s ]$ for any positive and monotone increasing function $f$, $s\in[0,1]$, and positive semi-definite matrices $A$ and $B$. On the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Po-Chieh Liu , Hao-Chung Cheng

On the set of mappings of the given set, we define the product of mappings. If A is associative algebra, then we consider the set of matrices, whose elements are linear mappings of algebra A. In algebra of matrices of linear mappings we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-01-28 Aleks Kleyn

Presentation of set matrices and demonstration of their efficiency as a tool using the path/cycle problem.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-09-28 Sergey Gubin

We prove inequalities on non-integer powers of products of generalized matrices functions on the sum of positive semi-definite matrices. For example, for any real number $r \in \{1\} \cup [2, \infty)$, positive semi-definite matrices $A_i,\…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Shaowu Huang , Chi-Kwong Li , Yiu-Tung Poon , Qing-Wen Wang

In the following short paper we list some useful results concerning determinants and inverses of matrices. First we show, how to calculate determinants of $d \times d$ matrices, if their traces are known. As a next step $4 \times 4$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Frieder Kleefeld , Manfred Dillig

Matrices are very popular and widely used in mathematics and other fields of science. Every mathematician has known the properties of finite-sized matrices since the time of study. In this paper, we consider the basic theory of infnite…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Lukasz Matysiak , Weronika Przewozniak , Natalia Rulinska

The paper establishes error orders for integral limit approximations to the traces of products of Toeplitz matrices generated by integrable real symmetric functions defined on the unit circle. These approximations and the corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-15 M. S. Ginovyan , A. A. Sahakyan

In this paper we give alternate proofs of some well-known matrix inequalities. In particular, we show that under certain conditions the inequality holds \begin{align}\sum \limits_{\lambda_i\in \mathrm{Spec}(ab^{T})}\mathrm{min}\{\log…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Theophilus Agama

We study the problem when every matrix over a division ring is representable as either the product of traceless matrices or the product of semi-traceless matrices, and also give some applications of such decompositions. Specifically, we…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Peter V. Danchev , Truong Huu Dung , Tran Nam Son

We present some new inequalities related to determinant and trace for positive semidefinite block matrices by using symmetric tensor product, which are extensions of Fiedler-Markham's inequality and Thompson's inequality.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yongtao Li , Yang Huang , Lihua Feng , Weijun Liu

The product of a Hermitian matrix and a positive semidefinite matrix has only real eigenvalues. We present bounds for sums of eigenvalues of such a product.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Bo-Yan Xi , Fuzhen Zhang

We present several applications of matrix-theoretic inequalities to the magnitude of metric spaces. We first resolve an open problem by showing that the magnitude of any finite metric space of negative type is less than or equal to its…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Kiyonori Gomi , Mark Meckes

Maximum entropy principles in nonextensive statistical physics are revisited as an application of the Tsallis relative entropy defined for non-negative matrices in the framework of matrix analysis. In addtition, some matrix trace…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-12 Shigeru Furuichi

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: we present some matrix inequalities of log-majorization type for eigenvalues indexed by a sequence; we then apply our main theorem to generalize and improve the Hua-Marcus' inequalities. Our results…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Bo-Yan Xi , Fuzhen Zhang

In this paper, we study a structured family of matrices whose entries are given by products of $k$-Fibonacci and $k$-Lucas numbers. For this family, we obtain explicit and unified formulas for several classical matrix invariants, including…

Which matrices can be written as sums or products of square-zero matrices? This question is the central premise of this dissertation. Over the past 25 years a significant body of research on products and linear combinations of square-zero…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Christiaan J Hattingh

Random matrices now play a role in many parts of computational mathematics. To advance these applications, it is desirable to have tools that are flexible, easy to use, and powerful. Over the last 25 years, researchers have developed a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Joel A. Tropp