Continuous minimax theorems

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-18182-0_2MaRDI QIDQ2820963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Madhushree Basu, V. S. Sunder

Publication date 16 September 2016

Published in Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7581

zbMATH Keywords

\(\operatorname{II}_1\) factorCourant-Fischer-Weyl theoremLidskii theoremminimax theoremnon-commutative probabilityWielandt theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

Abstract: In classical matrix theory, there exist useful extremal characterizations of eigenvalues and their sums for Hermitian matrices (due to Ky Fan, Courant-Fischer-Weyl and Wielandt) and some consequences such as the majorization assertion in Lidskii's theorem. In this paper, we extend these results to the context of self adjoint elements of finite von Neumann algebras, and their distribution and quantile functions. This work was motivated by a lemma in a paper by Voiculescu and Bercovici, that described such an extremal characterization of the distribution of a self-adjoint operator affiliated to a finite von Neumann algebra - suggesting a possible analogue of the classical Courant-Fischer-Weyl minmax theorem, for a self adjoint operator in a finite von Neumann algebra. It is to be noted that the only von Neumann algebras considered here have separable pre-duals.

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