A norm compression inequality for block partitioned positive semidefinite matrices

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Abstract: Let A be a positive semidefinite matrix, block partitioned as A= womat{B}{C}{C^*}{D}, where B and D are square blocks. We prove the following inequalities for the Schatten q-norm ||.||q, which are sharp when the blocks are of size at least 2imes2: ||A||_q^q le (2^q-2) ||C||_q^q + ||B||_q^q+||D||_q^q, quad 1le qle 2, and ||A||_q^q ge (2^q-2) ||C||_q^q + ||B||_q^q+||D||_q^q, quad 2le q. These bounds can be extended to symmetric partitionings into larger numbers of blocks, at the expense of no longer being sharp: ||A||_q^q le sum_{i} ||A_{ii}||_q^q + (2^q-2) sum_{i<j} ||A_{ij}||_q^q, quad 1le qle 2, and ||A||_q^q ge sum_{i} ||A_{ii}||_q^q + (2^q-2) sum_{i<j} ||A_{ij}||_q^q, quad 2le q.


The paper deals with Schatten-norm inequalities of block matrices. More explicitly, the author shows that if \(A\) is a positive semi-definite block matrix \(A=\left[\begin{smallmatrix} B&C\\ C^*&D\end{smallmatrix}\right]\) with \(B\), \(D\) square, then for \(1\leq q\leq2\), \[ \| A\| _q^q\leq(2^q-2)\,\| C\| _q^q+\| B\| _q^q+\| D\| _q^q, \tag{1} \] with the inequality reversed for \(q\geq2\). Equality occurs not only in the \(q=2\) case, but also in the \(q=1\) case. The inequality (1) admits a straightforward extension to \(n\times n\) positive semi-definite block matrices.




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