Lu–Wenzel constrained DDVV conjecture

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Let K=R\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R} and let B1,,BmM(n,K)B_1,\ldots,B_m\in M(n,\mathbb{K}), where M(n,K)M(n,\mathbb{K}) is the space of n×nn\times n matrices over K\mathbb{K}. Let [A,B]=ABBA[A,B]=AB-BA and let \|\cdot\| denote the Frobenius norm. Assume

tr(Bα[Bγ,Bβ])=0\operatorname{tr}\bigl(B_\alpha[B_\gamma,B_\beta]\bigr)=0

for all 1α,β,γm1\leq\alpha,\beta,\gamma\leq m. Lu–Wenzel conjecture. Then

α,β=1m[Bα,Bβ]2(α=1mBα2)2.\sum_{\alpha,\beta=1}^{m}\|[B_\alpha,B_\beta]\|^2\leq\left(\sum_{\alpha=1}^{m}\|B_\alpha\|^2\right)^2.

The paper presents this as one of the Lu–Wenzel conjectures and notes that its restriction to real symmetric matrices is the DDVV inequality; no resolution is supplied.

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Primary source

Jianquan Ge, Fagui Li, Zizhou Tang and Yi Zhou, “A survey on the DDVV-type inequalities”, arXiv:2402.01085 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.06624.

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