Some research problems on the hadamard product and singular values of matrices (Q4487069)

Let \(M_n\) be the space of \(n\times n\) complex matrices. For \(A,B\in M_n\), \(|A|:=(A^*A)^{1/2}\) and \(A\circ B\) denotes the Hadamard product of \(A\) and \(B\). Let \(\sigma_1(A)\geq\sigma_2(A)\cdots\) denote the singular values of \(A\in M_n\). The author seeks answers to the following questions: 1. Is it true that for any \(A,B\in M_n\) there exist unitary matrices \(U\) and \(V\) such that \[ |A\circ B|\leq\bigl( U|A|U^*) \circ (V|B|V^*\bigr)? \] 2. Is it true that for any given \(A,B\in M_n\) there exist unitary matrices \(U,V\) such that \[ \sigma_j(A\circ B)\leq \sigma_j \biggl[\bigl( U|A|U^*\bigr) \circ\bigl(V|B|V^* \bigr)\biggr],\quad j=1,2,\dots,n? \] 3. For positive semidefinite \(A,B\in M_n\), \(1\leq 2r\leq 3\) and \(-2 <t<2\), is it true that \[ (2+t)\sigma_j (A^rB^{2-r}+A^{2-r}B^r)\leq 2\sigma_j (A^2 +tAB+ B^2), \quad j=1,2,\dots,n? \] 4. For positive semidefinite \(A,B\in M_n\), \(0\leq r\leq 1\), is it true that \[ \sigma_j(A^rB^{1-r}+A^{1-r}B^r)\leq 2\sigma_j (A+B), \quad j= 1,2, \dots,n? \]