1. Introduction
The theory of inequalities remains a very attractive area of research in the last few decades. In particular, the investigation of numerical radius inequalities in Hilbert and semi-Hilbert spaces has occupied an important and central role in the theory of operator inequalities. For further details, interested readers are referred to the very recent book by Bhunia et al. [
1].
Throughout the present article, stands for a non-trivial complex Hilbert space with inner product and the corresponding norm . By , we denote the -algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on The identity operator on will be simply written as I. Let . The range and the adjoint of T will be denoted by and , respectively. An operator is called positive and we write if for all . If , then denotes the square root of T.
If is a subspace of , then we mean by the closure of in the norm topology of . Let be a closed subspace of . We denote by the orthogonal projection onto .
For the rest of this work, by an operator, we mean a bounded linear operator acting on
. We also assume that
is a non-zero, positive operator. Such an
A defines the following semi-inner product on
:
for all
. The seminorm on
induced by
is stated as:
for every
. Hence, we see that the above seminorm is a norm on
if and only if
A is a one-to-one operator. Furthermore, one can prove that the semi-Hilbert space
is a complete space if and only if
. The
A-unit sphere of
is defined as
We refer the reader to the following list of recent works on the theory of semi-Hilbert spaces [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6].
Let
. We recall from [
7] that an operator
is called an
A-adjoint of
T if the equality
holds for all
, that is,
. In general, the existence and the uniqueness of an
A-adjoint of an arbitrary bounded operator
T are not guaranteed. By using a famous theorem due to Douglas [
8], we see that the sets of all operators that admit
A-adjoint and
-adjoint operators are, respectively, given by
and
When an operator
S belongs to
, we say that
S is
A-bounded. It is not difficult to check that
and
represent two subalgebras of
. Moreover, the following inclusions
hold and are, in general, proper. For more details, we refer to [
7,
9,
10,
11] and the references therein. We recall now that an operator
is called
A-self-adjoint if
is self-adjoint. Clearly the fact that
S is
A-self-adjoint implies that
. Furthermore, we say that an operator
S is called
A-positive (and we write
) if
. Obviously,
A-positive operators are
A-self-adjoint. For
the operator
A-seminorm and the
A-numerical radius of
S are given, respectively, by
The quantities in (1) are also intensively studied when
, and the reader is referred to [
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22] as a recent list of references treating the numerical radius and operator norm of operators on complex Hilbert spaces.
If
, then by the Douglas theorem [
8], there exists a unique solution, denoted by
, of the problem:
and
. We emphasize here that if
, then
and
.
Now, let
be a
d-tuple of operators. According to [
23], the following two quantities
and
generalize the notions in (1) and define two equivalent norms on
. Namely, we have
for every operator tuple
. Note that
and
are called the joint
A-numerical radius and joint operator
A-seminorm of
, respectively. The above two quantities have been investigated by several authors when
(see for instance [
24,
25,
26,
27]). Another joint
A-seminorm of
A-bounded operators has been recently introduced [
28]. Namely, the Euclidean
A-seminorm of an operator tuple
is given by
where
denotes the closed unit ball of
, i.e.,
where
denotes the set of all complex numbers. It is important to note that the following inequalities,
hold for any
d-tuple of operators
(see [
28]).
Our aim in the present article is to establish several estimates involving the quantities
,
and
, where
is a
d-tuple of
A-bounded operators. Some inequalities connecting the
A-numerical radius and operator
A-seminorm for
A-bounded operators are established. One main target of this work is to derive, under appropriate conditions, several reverse bounds for
in both single and multivariable settings. In particular, for
,
and
, we will demonstrate under appropriate conditions on
T,
and
r that
2. Results
This section is devoted to present our contributions. By , we will denote the real part of any complex number . In the next theorem, we state our first result.
Theorem 1. Let and with Ifor, equivalentlythen Proof. Notice first that the following assertions,
- (i)
- (ii)
are equivalent for every
. Indeed, one can see that
Hence, the equivalence is proved.
By taking , and in the statements (i) and (ii), we deduce that (4) and (5) are equivalent.
Now, for
, we define
and
This gives
for any
and
. This is an interesting identity itself as well.
If (4) holds, then
and thus
Furthermore, it can be checked that for every
, we have
By letting
in the above elementary inequality, we obtain
Making use of the inequalities (7) and (8), we deduce that
and by taking the supremum over all
in (9), we obtain the required result (6). □
Remark 1. Let . We say that S is an A-accretive operator, if Now, let If are such that either is A-accretive or , then by (6), we obtainwhich gives As an application of Theorem 1, we state the following result.
Corollary 1. Let and be such that andfor any and every Then, Proof. Let
. From Theorem 1, we have
for
This gives,
By using the triangle and Cauchy–Schwarz inequalities, we have
Moreover, since
then, by applying (11) and (12), we obtain
for all
By taking the supremum over all in the last inequality and then using the identity in (3), we reach (10) as desired. □
An important application of the inequality (9) can be stated as follows.
Corollary 2. Let and with for . Assume that for every , we have Proof. Let
. By applying (9), we obtain
for
By summing over
, we obtain
Finally, by taking the supremum over
, we obtain
This establishes (14). □
The following lemma is needed for the sequel.
Lemma 1 ([
29] p. 9)
. Let and be such thatfor all . Then, We can now prove the next proposition.
Proposition 1. Let and with . Assume that Proof. Assume that (16) is valid. Let
and take
for all
. Then, we see that
for any
So, by taking the supremum over all , we obtain (17) as desired. □
We now have the following result.
Theorem 2. Let If and are such that Proof. Let
. It follows from (18) that
Taking the supremum over
in the last inequality, we obtain
Moreover, it is clear that
thus, by applying (19) and (20), we infer that
So, we immediately obtain the desired result. □
The following corollary is now in order.
Corollary 3. Let and with Assume that Proof. According to the proof of Theorem 1, we observe that (21) is equivalent to
which is, in turn, equivalent to the following operator norm inequality:
Now, applying Theorem 2 for and , we deduce the desired result. □
Another sufficient condition under which the inequality (22) hold is presented in terms of A-positive operators and reads as follows.
Corollary 4. Let with and Ifthen Corollary 5. Suppose that ν and r are as in Theorem 2. If, in addition,for some then Proof. From the inequality (19), we see that
Hence, an application of (24) leads to the desired inequality. □
Remark 2. If, in particular, with , then Our next result reads as follows.
Theorem 3. Let and with for Iffor thenand Proof. Using Corollary 3, we have
for
Let
, multiply by
and sum to obtain
By the triangle inequality, we have
while by the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, we obtain
and
From (28), we then obtain
for all
By taking the supremum over and using the representation (3), we obtain (26).
The inequality (25) is equivalent for
to
for
Therefore,
for
If we sum and apply the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, we then obtain
On the other hand, an application of the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality shows that
Therefore, we deduce that
If we take the supremum over all
, we obtain
which gives (27). Hence, the proof is complete. □
An immediate application of Theorem 3 is derived in the next corollary.
Corollary 6. Let and with . Assume thatfor . Then,and Now, we state in the next lemma a reverse of the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality (see for instance ([
29] p. 32) for a more general result).
Lemma 2. Under the same assumptions of Lemma 1, we have We state our next result as follows.
Theorem 4. Let and with . Assume that Proof. Let
and
with the property (32). By letting
and then proceeding as in the proof of Proposition 1, we see that
for any
So, by employing (31), we obtain
for every
By taking the supremum over all
in the last inequality, we reach the desired result. □
Remark 3. Since then (30) implies (32).
Now, we aim to establish several reverse inequalities for the A-numerical radius of operators acting on semi-Hilbert spaces in both single and multivariable settings under some boundedness conditions for the operators. Our first new result in this context may be stated as follows.
Theorem 5. Let be such that . If and are such that andthen Proof. Dividing by
, we obtain
Further, it is easy to verify that
So, by using (34), we deduce
which is immediately equivalent to (33). □
Remark 4. (1) Squaring the inequality (33), we obtain the following inequality:(2) For every operator , we have the relation (see [23]). Inequality (33) would produce an improvement of the above classic fact only in the case whenwhich is, in turn, equivalent to The next corollary holds.
Corollary 7. Let with Additionally, let be such that . Assume that either (21) or (23) holds. Then, we haveand Proof. If we consider
and
then
Now, by applying Theorem 5, we deduce the desired result. □
Remark 5. If and then (35) is a refinement of the inequality
Corollary 8. Let with . Additionally, let be such that the conditionis true for . Then, Proof. Notice, first, that since (36) holds, then we infer that
for any
and all
. Therefore, it follows from (35) that
for
Let
, multiply by
and sum to obtain
By taking the supremum over and using the representation (3), we obtain (37). □
In the next result, we prove under appropriate conditions a new relation connecting the joint A-seminorms and .
Proposition 2. Let with for all . Additionally, let be such that (25) is valid for Then, Proof. From (29), we obtain
for
This is equivalent to
for
If we sum and then apply the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, we then obtain
By applying the famous arithmetic–geometric mean inequality, we observe that
Therefore,
and by taking the supremum over
, we obtain (38). □
Remark 6. With the assumptions of Corollary 8, we can prove that The following lemma plays a fundamental role in the proof of our next proposition.
Lemma 3 ([
29] p. 26)
. If and , with the property that andfor each then By proceeding as in the proof of Theorem 4 and using Lemma 3, we state without proof the following result.
Proposition 3. Let , with . Suppose that (32) is satisfied. Then, The following result also holds.
Theorem 6. Let and with Ifthen Proof. Let
. It follows from (40) that
which yields that
By using (42), it can be seen that
. So, by taking (42) into account, we obtain
Since
and
then, we deduce that
which gives the inequality
By taking the supremum over
in (43), we obtain
So, we immediately obtain (41). □
By making use of the inequalities (44) and (43), we are ready to establish the next two corollaries as applications of our previous result.
Corollary 9. Let be such that and Additionally, let be such that either (4) or (5) holds. Then: Proof. Set
and
. Clearly,
. Moreover, since (5) holds, then so is (40). So, the desired result follows by applying (44) and then observing that
□
Remark 7. Assume that . If are such that either is A-accretive orthen, by applying (45), we infer that Corollary 10. Let and with , for . Assume thatfor all . Then, Proof. Let
. Set
and
for all
. Clearly, we have
and
for every
i. Thus, an application of (43) shows that
This yields, through (46), that
for
If we sum and then apply the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, we then obtain
By taking the supremum over this inequality, we derive the desired result. □
Another application of the inequality (45) provides an upper bound for the Euclidean operator A-seminorm of d-tuples of operators in and stated in the next proposition.
Proposition 4. Let . Let also with and . Suppose thatfor any and all . Then, Proof. From (45), we see that
for
Let
, multiply by
and sum to obtain
By taking the supremum over and using the representation (3), we obtain the desired result. □
The next lemma plays a crucial role in establishing our final result in this paper.
Lemma 4 ([
30])
. If are such that andfor each then we have Now, we are ready to state our final proposition.
Proposition 5. Let and let be such that . Assume that the condition (16) is valid. Then, Proof. The proof follows by proceeding as in the proof of Proposition 2 and then taking Lemma 4 into consideration. □