Inequalities for the Wasserstein mean of positive definite matrices (Q2002552)

The authors give majorization relations among Karcher, log-Euclidean, Wasserstein and \(p\)-th power (or quasi-arithmetic) mean on \(n\)-tuples of positive definite operators on a Hilbert space. More precisely, the authors obtain the counterpart of a majorization relation in [\textit{F. Hiai} and \textit{D. Petz}, Linear Algebra Appl. 436, No. 7, 2117--2136 (2012; Zbl 1309.53017)]. Next, the authors give norm inequalities of Wasserstein and \(1/2\)-th power mean for \(p=1\) and \(\infty\) norms, and \(2\) norm on couples of positive definite operators. We notice that Wasserstein and \(1/2\)-th power mean are the same if a \(n\)-tuple of positive definite operators is commuting.