Symmetric seminorms and the Leibniz property

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Abstract: We show that certain symmetric seminorms on mathbbRn satisfy the Leibniz inequality. As an application, we obtain that Lp norms of centered bounded real functions, defined on probability spaces, have the same property. Even though this is well-known for the standard deviation it seems that the complete result has never been established. In addition, we shall connect the results with the differential calculus introduced by Cipriani and Sauvageot and Rieffel's non-commutative Riemann metric.


The main result of the paper is the following inequality, previously known for \(p = 2\): for every probability space \((S, {\mathcal F}, \mu)\) and \(1 \leq p < \infty\), one has: \[ \| f g - {\mathbb E} (f g) \|_p \leq \| g \|_\infty \| f - {\mathbb E} f \|_p + \| f \|_\infty \| g - {\mathbb E} g \|_p \] for all real \(f, g \in L^\infty (S, \mu)\). For that, the author proves that, if \(\| \, . \, \|\) is any symmetric norm on \({\mathbb R}^n\), then: \[ \| f g - {\mathbb E} (f g) \| \leq \| g \|_\infty \| f - {\mathbb E} f \| + \| f \|_\infty \| g - {\mathbb E} g \| \eqno (1) \] for all \(f, g \in {\mathbb R}^n\), where \({\mathbb E} f =\big[ {1 \over n} \, (f_1 + \cdots + f_n) \big] \, (1, \dots, 1)\) if \(f = (f_1, \dots, f_n) \in {\mathbb R}^n\), and uses Proposition~2.1 of \textit{Á. Besenyei} and \textit{Z. Léka} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 429, No. 2, 1178--1189 (2015; Zbl 1335.46056)]. Two proofs of \((1)\) are given; the first one uses the Ky Fan \(k\)-norms defined by \(\| x \|_{(k)} = |x|_1^\ast + \cdots + |x|_k^\ast\), where \((|x|_1^\ast, \dots, |x|_n^\ast)\) is the non-increasing rearrangement of \(|x| = (|x_1|, \dots, |x_n|)\); the second one uses a suitable derivation \(\partial : \ell_\infty^n \to M_n ({\mathbb R}^n)\). If \(({\mathcal A}, \| \, . \, \|)\) is a unital normed algebra, a seminorm \(L\) on \({\mathcal A}\) is said to be Leibniz if \(L (1_{\mathcal A}) = 0\) and \[ L (a b) \leq \| a \| \, L (b) + \| b \| \, L (a) \] for all \(a, b \in {\mathcal A}\). It is strongly Leibniz if, moreover, \(L (a^{- 1}) \leq \| a^{- 1}\|^2 L (a)\) for all invertible elements \(a\). \textit{M. A. Rieffel} [New York J. Math. 20, 35--56 (2014; Zbl 1310.46056)] showed that, if \((S, \mu)\) a probability space, then \(L (f) = \| f - {\mathbb E} (f) \|_2\) defines a strong Leibniz semi-norm on \({\mathcal A} = L^\infty (S, \mu)\); and if \(\Omega\) is a normed bimodule over \({\mathcal A}\) and \(\partial : {\mathcal A} \to \Omega\) is a derivation satisfying \(\partial (ab) = \partial (a) b + a \partial (b)\), then \(L (a) = \| \partial a \|_\Omega\) is a strong Leibniz seminorm on \({\mathcal A}\). The author shows that such a situation arises from the Cipriani-Sauvageot differential calculus and links it to Rieffel's non-commutative Riemann metric. An example of a Leibniz seminorm on \({\mathbb R}^3\) which is not strongly Leibniz is given.











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