Generalizing Lieb's concavity theorem via operator interpolation

Abstract: We introduce the notion of

k

-trace and use interpolation of operators to prove the joint concavity of the function

, which generalizes Lieb's concavity theorem from trace to a class of homogeneous functions

e x t {T r}_{k} [c d o t]^{f} r a c 1 k

. Here

e x t {T r}_{k} [A]

denotes the

k_{e x t t h}

elementary symmetric polynomial of the eigenvalues of

A

. This result gives an alternative proof for the concavity of

that was obtained and used in a recent work to derive expectation estimates and tail bounds on partial spectral sums of random matrices.

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