Concavity of eigenvalue sums and the spectral shift function

DOI10.1006/JFAN.2000.3620MaRDI QIDQ1589980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 24 January 2002

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112279

perturbation selfadjoint operators spectral shift function trace class operators

Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15)

Abstract: It is well known that the sum of negative (positive) eigenvalues of some finite Hermitian matrix

V

is concave (convex) with respect to

V

. Using the theory of the spectral shift function we generalize this property to self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space with an arbitrary spectrum. More precisely, we prove that the spectral shift function integrated with respect to the spectral parameter from

- i n f t y

to

l a m b d a

(from

l a m b d a

to

+ i n f t y

) is concave (convex) with respect to trace class perturbations. The case of relative trace class perturbations is also considered.

Review text

Let us denote by \(S\) the set of trace class operators and \(\xi(\lambda; A_0+ V,A_0)\) the spectral shift function for the pair of operators \((A_0+ V,A_0)\). Theorem: Let \(A_0\) and \(V\) be selfadjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space and \(V\in S\). Then for an arbitrary real-valued nonincreasing function \(f\) of bounded total variational \[ g(V)= \int_R f(\lambda)\xi(\lambda; A_0+ V,A_0) d\lambda \] is concave, i.e., for any \(V_1,V_2\in S\) one has \(g(\alpha V_1+ (1-\alpha)V_2)\geq \alpha g(V_1)+ (1-\alpha)g(V_2)\) for all \(\alpha\in [0,1]\).

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