On norm sub-additivity and super-additivity inequalities for concave and convex functions

DOI10.1080/03081087.2011.653642MaRDI QIDQ3143341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koenraad M. R. Audenaert, Jaspal Singh Aujla

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2254

zbMATH Keywords

convex functionnorm inequalitiespositive semidefinite matrixunitarily invariant normoperator monotone functionconcave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60)

Abstract: Sub-additive and super-additive inequalities for concave and convex functions have been generalized to the case of matrices by several authors over a period of time. These lead to some interesting inequalities for matrices, which in some cases coincide with, and in other cases are at variance with the corresponding inequalities for real numbers. We survey some of these matrix inequalities and do further investigations into these. We introduce the novel notion of dominated majorization between the spectra of two Hermitian matrices $B$ and $C$, dominated by a third Hermitian matrix $A$. Based on an explicit formula for the gradient of the sum of the $k$ largest eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix, we show that under certain conditions dominated majorization reduces to a linear majorization-like relation between the diagonal elements of $B$ and $C$ in a certain basis. We use this notion as a tool to give new, elementary proofs for the sub-additivity inequality for non-negative concave functions first proved by Bourin and Uchiyama and the corresponding super-additivity inequality for non-negative convex functions first proven by Kosem. Finally, we present counterexamples to some conjectures that Ando's inequality for operator convex functions could more generally hold, e.g. for ordinary convex, non-negative functions.

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