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The best constants for operator Lipschitz functions on Schatten classes

Functional Analysis 2014-08-29 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

Suppose that f is a Lipschitz function on the real numbers with Lipschitz constant smaller or equal to 1. Let A be a bounded self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space H. Let 1<p<infinity and suppose that x in B(H) is an operator such that the commutator [A, x] is contained in the Schatten class S_p. It is proved by the last two authors, that then also [f(A), x] is contained in S_p and there exists a constant C_p independent of x and f such that || [f(A), x] ||_p <= C_p || [A,x] ||_p. The main result of this paper is to give a sharp estimate for C_p in terms of p. Namely, we show that C_p ~ p^2/(p-1). In particular, this gives the best estimates for operator Lipschitz inequalities. We treat this result in a more general setting. This involves commutators of n self-adjoint operators, for which we prove the analogous result. The case described here in the abstract follows as a special case.

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@article{arxiv.1209.3948,
  title  = {The best constants for operator Lipschitz functions on Schatten classes},
  author = {Martijn Caspers and Stephen Montgomery-Smith and Denis Potapov and Fedor Sukochev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3948},
  year   = {2014}
}

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J. Functional Analysis, to appear

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