CONVEX MULTIVARIABLE TRACE FUNCTIONS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X02001260MaRDI QIDQ4420449zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. H. Lieb, Gert Kjaergård Pedersen

Publication date 17 August 2003

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0107062

zbMATH Keywords

\(\ell\)-convexityKadison-Fuglede determinantoperator algebrasoperator meantrace functiontrace inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterizations of Hilbert spaces (46C15) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Functional calculus for linear operators (47A60)

Abstract: For any densely defined, lower semi-continuous trace au on a C*-algebra A with mutually commuting C*-subalgebras A_1, A_2, ... A_n, and a convex function f of n variables, we give a short proof of the fact that the function (x_1, x_2, ..., x_n) --> au (f(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)) is convex on the space �igoplus_{i=1}^n (A_i)_{self-adjoint}. If furthermore the function f is log-convex or root-convex, so is the corresponding trace function. We also introduce a generalization of log-convexity and root-convexity called ell-convexity, show how it applies to traces, and give a few examples. In particular we show that the trace of an operator mean is always dominated by the corresponding mean of the trace values.

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