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We construct a general theory of operator monotonicity and apply it to the Fr\"ohlich polaron hamiltonian. This general theory provides a consistent viewpoint of the Fr\"ohlich model.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tadahiro Miyao

Monotonicity and convex analysis arise naturally in the framework of multi-marginal optimal transport theory. However, a comprehensive multi-marginal monotonicity and convex analysis theory is still missing. To this end we study extensions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Sedi Bartz , Heinz H. Bauschke , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

Multimodular functions, primarily used in the literature of queueing theory, discrete-event systems, and operations research, constitute a fundamental function class in discrete convex analysis. The objective of this paper is to clarify the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Satoko Moriguchi , Kazuo Murota

We introduce the theory of operator monotone functions and employ it to derive a new inequality relating the quantum relative entropy and the quantum conditional entropy. We present applications of this new inequality and in particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. B. Plenio , S. Virmani , P. Papadopoulos

We introduce certain linear positive operators and study some approximation properties of these operators in the space of functions, continuous on a compact set, of two variables. We also find the order of this approximation by using…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Fatma Tasdelen , Ali Olgun , Gulen Bascanbaz-Tunca

We provide comparison principles for convex functions through its proximal mappings. Consequently, we prove that the norm of the proximal operator determines a convex the function up to a constant. A new characterization of Lipschitzianity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Emilio Vilches

In this paper, we study some properties such as the monotonicity, logarithmically complete monotonicity, logarithmic convexity, and geometric convexity, of the combinations of gamma function and power function. The results we obtain…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Peipei Du , Gendi Wang

The most important open problem in Monotone Operator Theory concerns the maximal monotonicity of the sum of two maximal monotone operators provided that Rockafellar's constraint qualification holds. In this paper, we prove the maximal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Liangjin Yao

Mixed monotone systems form an important class of nonlinear systems that have recently received attention in the abstraction-based control design area. Slightly different definitions exist in the literature, and it remains a challenge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Liren Yang , Oscar Mickelin , Necmiye Ozay

This article employs techniques from convex analysis to present characterizations of (maximal) $n-$monotonicity, similar to the well-established characterizations of (maximal) monotonicity found in the existing literature. These…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 M. D. Voisei

We present a characterization of operator log-convex functions by using positive linear mappings. Moreover, we study the non-commutative f-divergence functional of operator log-convex functions. In particular, we prove that f is operator…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Mohsen Kian

In this paper, we study operator mean inequalities for the weighted arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means. We give a slight modification of Audenaert's result to show the relation between Kwong functions and operator monotone functions.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Nahid Gharakhanlu , Mohammad Sal Moslehian , Hamed Najafi

The most important open problem in Monotone Operator Theory concerns the maximal monotonicity of the sum of two maximal monotone operators provided that Rockafellar's constraint qualification holds. In this note, we provide a new maximal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang , Liangjin Yao

Monotonicity with respect to all arguments is fundamental to the definition of aggregation functions. It is also a limiting property that results in many important non-monotonic averaging functions being excluded from the theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Tim Wilkin , Gleb Beliakov

We study the relations between some geometric properties of maximal monotone operators and generic geometric and analytical properties of the functions on the associate Fitzpatrick family of convex representations. We also investigate under…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 B. F. Svaiter

Some identities for noncommutative perspectives of operator monotone functions in Hilbert spaces aregiven. Applications for weighted operator geometric mean and relative operator entropy are also provided.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Silvestru Sever Dragomir

The notion of quasi-Fej\'er monotonicity has proven to be an efficient tool to simplify and unify the convergence analysis of various algorithms arising in applied nonlinear analysis. In this paper, we extend this notion in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Patrick L. Combettes , Bang C. Vu

We prove that a continuous function $f:(0,\infty) \to (0,\infty)$ is operator monotone increasing if and only if $f(A \: !_t \: B) \leqs f(A) \: !_t \: f(B)$ for any positive operators $A,B$ and scalar $t \in [0,1]$. Here, $!_t$ denotes the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Pattrawut Chansangiam

We prove Lieb type convexity and concavity results for trace functionals associated with positive operator monotone (decreasing) functions and certain monotone concave functions. This gives a partial generalization of Hiai's recent work on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Hans Henrich Neumann , Makoto Yamashita

An operator connection is a binary operation assigned to each pair of positive operators satisfying monotonicity, continuity from above and the transformer inequality. In this paper, we introduce and characterize the concepts of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Pattrawut Chansangiam