Relationships between partial orders of matrices and their powers. (Q1426307)

The paper deals with relationships between partial orders of matrices and their powers. It is mainly concerned with two matrix partial orderings. One of them is the star ordering and the other is the minus partial ordering. \textit{J. K. Baksalary} and \textit{F. Pukelsheim} [Linear Algebra Appl. 151, 135--141 (1991; Zbl 0737.15008)] provided a complete solution to the problem of how an order between two Hermitian nonnegative definite matrices \(A\) and \(B\) is related to the corresponding order between the squares \(A^2\) and \(B^2\) in the sense of the star, minus and Lowner partial orderings. In this paper, the authors generalize the mentioned results from two points of view: by widening the class of matrices considered and by replacing the squares by arbitrary powers.