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Revisiting a sharpened version of Hadamard's determinant inequality

Functional Analysis 2020-08-11 v1

Abstract

Hadamard's determinant inequality was refined and generalized by Zhang and Yang in [Acta Math. Appl. Sinica 20 (1997) 269-274]. Some special cases of the result were rediscovered recently by Rozanski, Witula and Hetmaniok in [Linear Algebra Appl. 532 (2017) 500-511]. We revisit the result in the case of positive semidefinite matrices, giving a new proof in terms of majorization and a complete description of the conditions for equality in the positive definite case. We also mention a block extension, which makes use of a result of Thompson in the 1960s.

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@article{arxiv.2007.13155,
  title  = {Revisiting a sharpened version of Hadamard's determinant inequality},
  author = {Minghua Lin and Gord Sinnamon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13155},
  year   = {2020}
}
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