General trace commutator inequality for functions

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Let AA and BB be positive semidefinite d×dd\times d matrices, set a=Tr⁡Aa=\operatorname{Tr}A and b=Tr⁡Bb=\operatorname{Tr}B, and let f:R→Rf:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} be in a class of functions to be determined. Define

F(x)=∫0xf(y) dy.F(x)=\int_0^x f(y)\,dy.

General trace commutator conjecture. There exists a constant cc, independent of dd, such that

∥[B,f(A+B)]∥1≤c(F(a+b)−F(a)−F(b)).\lVert[B,f(A+B)]\rVert_1\leq c\bigl(F(a+b)-F(a)-F(b)\bigr).

The source reports numerical evidence for c=1c=1 for f(x)=log⁡xf(x)=\log x, x2x^2, and xpx^p with 0<p≤10<p\leq1 under a+b=1a+b=1, and explicitly leaves the admissible class of functions to be determined.

References

Primary source

K. M. R. Audenaert and F. Kittaneh, “Problems and Conjectures in Matrix and Operator Inequalities”, arXiv:1201.5232 (2012).

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