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To each real continuous function f there is an associated trace function on real symmetric matrices Tr f. The classical Klein lemma states that f is convex if and only if Tr f is convex. In this note we present an algebraic strengthening of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Igor Klep , Scott A. McCullough , Christopher S. Nelson

In this work, an operator superquadratic function (in operator sense) for positive Hilbert space operators is defined. Several examples with some important properties together with some observations which are related to the operator…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 M. W. Alomari

We prove new entropy inequalities for log concave and s-concave functions that strengthen and generalize recently established reverse log Sobolev and Poincare inequalities for such functions. This leads naturally to the concept of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Umut Caglar , Elisabeth M. Werner

We analyze matrix convex functions of a fixed order defined on a real interval by differential methods as opposed to the characterization in terms of divided differences given by Kraus. We obtain for each order conditions for matrix…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen , Jun Tomiyama

In [B1, Theorem 2.36] we proved the equivalence of six conditions on a continuous function f on an interval. These conditions define a subset of the set of operator convex functions, whose elements are called strongly operator convex. Two…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Lawrence G. Brown

It is well known that increasing functions do not preserve operator order in general; nor do decreasing functions reverse operator order. However, operator monotone increasing or operator monotone decreasing do. In this article, we employ a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Gholamreza Karamali , Hamid Reza Moradi , Mohammad Sababheh

Given an nxn doubly stochastic matrix P satisfying an appropriate condition of linear algebraic-type, and a function f defined on a nonempty interval, we show that the validity of a convexity-type functional inequality for f in terms P…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Matyas Barczy , Zsolt Páles

We discuss when law-invariant convex functionals "collapse to the mean". More precisely, we show that, in a large class of spaces of random variables and under mild semicontinuity assumptions, the expectation functional is, up to an affine…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-21 Fabio Bellini , Pablo Koch-Medina , Cosimo Munari , Gregor Svindland

In these notes we address the study of the log-concave operator acting on Lucas Sequences of first kind. We will find for which initial values a generic Lucas sequence is log-concave, and using this we show when the same sequence is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Piero Giacomelli

In this paper, we investigate the properties of sequences and series under the action of the log-concave operator \(\mathcal{L}\). We explore the relationship between the convergence of a sequence \((a_k)\) and the convergence of sequences…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Piero Giacomelli

The operator function (A,B)\to\tr f(A,B)(K^*)K, defined on pairs of bounded self-adjoint operators in the domain of a function f of two real variables, is convex for every Hilbert Schmidt operator K, if and only if f is operator convex. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen

In this paper, we obtain some new inequalities for functions whose second derivatives' absolute value is s-convex and log-convex. Also, we give some applications for numerical integration.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Ahmet Ocak Akdemir , Merve Avci Ardic , M. Emin Özdemir

Matrix versions of some basic convexity inequalities are given. Further results on the same topic are proved in the recent papers on arxiv: 1. Hermitian operators and convex functions, 2. A concavity inequality for symmetric norms, 3.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Christophe Bourin

A differentiable function is pseudoconvex if and only if its restrictions over straight lines are pseudoconvex. A differentiable function depending on one variable, defined on some closed interval $[a,b]$ is pseudoconvex if and only if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Vsevolod Ivanov Ivanov

The dominant method for defining multivariate operator means is to express them as fix-points under a contraction with respect to the Thompson metric. Although this method is powerful, it crucially depends on monotonicity. We are developing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Frank Hansen

In this paper we establish a multivariable non-commutative generalization of L\"owner's classical theorem from 1934 characterizing operator monotone functions as real functions admitting analytic continuation mapping the upper complex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Miklós Pálfia

We analyze the role played by $n$-convexity for the fulfillment of a series of linear functional inequalities that extend the Hornich-Hlawka functional inequality, $f\left( x\right) +f\left( y\right) +f\left( z\right) +f\left( x+y+z\right)…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Constantin P. Niculescu , Suvrit Sra

Positive real odd matrix functions, often referred to as positive real lossless matrix functions, play an important role in many applications in multi-port electrical systems. In this paper we present closer analogues to some of the known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Sanne ter Horst , Alma Naudé

We introduce log-log convex programs, which are optimization problems with positive variables that become convex when the variables, objective functions, and constraint functions are replaced with their logs, which we refer to as a log-log…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Akshay Agrawal , Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

The convolution properties are discussed for the complex-valued harmonic functions in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ constructed from the harmonic shearing of the analytic function $\phi(z):=\int_0^z…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Subzar Beig , V. Ravichandran