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Reverse Holder, Minkowski, And Hanner Inequalities For Matrices

Functional Analysis 2021-10-27 v4 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We examine a number of known inequalities for LpL^p functions with reverse representations for s<1s<1 with complex matrices under the pp-norms Xp=Tr[(XX)p/2]1/p||X||_p=\text{Tr}[(X^\ast X)^{p/2}]^{1/p}, and similarly defined quasinorm or antinorm quantities Xs=Tr[(XX)s/2]1/s||X||_s=\text{Tr}[(X^\ast X)^{s/2}]^{1/s}. Analogous to the reverse H\"{o}lder and reverse Minkowski for LpL^p functions, it has recently been shown that for A,BMn×n(C)A,B\in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{C}) such that B|B| is invertible, AB1AsBs/(s1)||AB||_1\geq ||A||_{s}||B||_{s/(s-1)} and for A,BA,B positive semidefinite that A+BsAs+Bs||A+B||_s\geq ||A||_s+||B||_s. We comment on variational representations of these inequalities. A third very important inequality is Hanner's inequality f+gpp+fgpp(fp+gp)p+fpgpp||f+g||_p^p+||f-g||_p^p\geq(||f||_p+||g||_p)^p+|||f||_p-||g||_p|^p in the 1p21\leq p\leq 2 range, with the inequality reversing for p2p\geq 2. The analogue inequality has been proven to hold matrices in certain special cases. No reverse Hanner has established for functions or matrices considering ranges with s<1s<1. We develop a reverse Hanner inequality for functions, and show that it holds for matrices under special conditions; it is sufficient but not necessary for C+D,CD0C+D, C-D\geq 0. We also extend certain related singular value rearrangement inequalities that were previously known in the 1p31\leq p\leq3 range to the s<1s<1 range. Finally, we use the same techniques to characterize the previously unstudied equality case: we show that there is equality when p1,2p\neq 1,2 if and only if D=kC|D|=k|C|, which is directly analogous to the LpL^p equality condition.

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@article{arxiv.2103.09915,
  title  = {Reverse Holder, Minkowski, And Hanner Inequalities For Matrices},
  author = {Victoria Chayes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09915},
  year   = {2021}
}
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