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Operator convexity in Krein spaces

Functional Analysis 2014-11-04 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We introduce the notion of Krein-operator convexity in the setting of Krein spaces. We present an indefinite version of the Jensen operator inequality on Krein spaces by showing that if (H,J)(\mathscr{H},J) is a Krein space, U\mathcal{U} is an open set which is symmetric with respect to the real axis such that UR\mathcal{U}\cap\mathbb{R} consists of a segment of real axis and ff is a Krein-operator convex function on U\mathcal{U} with f(0)=0f(0)=0, then \begin{eqnarray*} f(C^{\sharp}AC)\leq^{J}C^{\sharp}f(A)C \end{eqnarray*} for all JJ-positive operators AA and all invertible JJ-contractions CC such that the spectra of AA, CACC^{\sharp}AC and DADD^{\sharp}AD are contained in U\mathcal{U}, where DD is a defect operator for CC^{\sharp}.\\ We also show that in contrast with usual operator convex functions the converse of this implication is not true, in general.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3238,
  title  = {Operator convexity in Krein spaces},
  author = {M. S. Moslehian and M. Dehghani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3238},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, to appear in New York J. Math

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