The square-root commutator conjecture for positive contractions

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Let HH and AA belong to a C∗C^{*}-algebra, with HH a positive contraction satisfying 0≤H≤10\leq H\leq1 and ∥A∥≤1\left\Vert A\right\Vert\leq1. For the square-root function f(x)=xf(x)=\sqrt{x}, let γf\gamma_f denote the corresponding commutator modulus for positive contractions. Square-root commutator conjecture. One has

γf(δ)=δ.\gamma_f(\delta)=\sqrt{\delta}.

Equivalently,

∥[H12,A]∥≤∥[H,A]∥12.\left\Vert \left[H^{\frac{1}{2}},A\right]\right\Vert\leq\left\Vert [H,A]\right\Vert^{\frac{1}{2}}.

This asserts the sharp square-root modulus of continuity for commutators under functional calculus of positive contractions. The supplied context identifies the assertion as something that was not clearly attributed and gives no evidence of resolution.

References

Primary source

Terry A. Loring and Fredy Vides, “Estimating Norms of Commutators”, arXiv:1301.4252 (2013).

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