Young's Inequality in Semifinite von Neumann Algebras

For a semi-finite von Neumann algebra $\mathcal A$, we study the case of equality in Young's inequality of s-numbers for a pair of $\tau$-measurable operators $a,b$, and we prove that equality is only possible if $|a|^p=|b|^q$. We also extend the result to unbounded operators affiliated with $\mathcal A$, and relate this problem with other symmetric norm Young inequalities.

Let $p>1$ and $1/p+1/q=1$. Consider H\"older's inequality $$ \|ab^*\|_1\le \|a\|_p\|b\|_q $$ for the $p$-norms of some trace ($a,b$ are matrices, compact operators, elements of a finite $C^*$-algebra or a semi-finite von Neumann algebra). This note contains a simple proof (based on the case $p=2$) of the fact that equality holds iff $|a|^p=\lambda |b|^q$ for some $\lambda\ge 0$.

If $a,b$ are $n\times n$ matrices, Ando proved that Young's inequality is valid for their singular values: if $p>1$ and $1/p+1/q=1$, then $$ \lambda_k|ab^*|\le \lambda_k( \frac1p |a|^p+\frac 1q |b|^q ) \, \textit{ for all }k. $$ Later, this result was extended for the singular values of a pair of compact operators acting on a Hilbert space by Erlijman, Farenick and Zeng. In this paper we prove that if $a,b$ are compact operators, then equality holds in Young's inequality if a...

We introduce non-linear traces of the Choquet type and Sugeno type on a semifinite factor $\mathcal{M}$ as a non-commutative analog of the Choquet integral and Sugeno integral for non-additive measures. We need weighted dimension function $p \mapsto \alpha(\tau(p))$ for projections $p \in \mathcal{M}$, which is an analog of a monotone measure. They have certain partial additivities. We show that these partial additivities characterize non-linear traces of both the Choquet typ...

In \cite{bik1}, A. M. Bikchentaev conjectured that for positive $\tau-$measurable operators $a$ and $b$ affiliated with an arbitrary semifinite von Neumann algebra $\mathcal M$, the operator $b^{1/2}ab^{1/2}$ is submajorized by the operator $ab$ in the sense of Hardy-Littlewood. We prove this conjecture in full generality and present a number of applications to fully symmetric operator ideals, Golden-Thompson inequality and (singular) traces.

Recently Kosaki proved an uncertainty principle for matrices, related to Wigner-Yanase-Dyson information, and asked if a similar inequality could be proved in the von Neumann algebra setting. In this paper we prove such an uncertainty principle in the semifinite case.

We extend Gour et al's characterization of quantum majorization via conditional min-entropy to the context of semifinite von Neumann algebras. Our method relies on a connection between conditional min-entropy and operator space projective tensor norm for injective von Neumann algebras. This approach also connects the tracial Hahn-Banach theorem of Helton, Klep and McCullough to noncommutative vector-valued $L_1$-space.

We extend the inequality of Audenaert et al to general von Neumann algebras.

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a von Neumann algebra equipped with a faithful semifinite normal weight $\phi$ and $\mathcal{N}$ be a von Neumann subalgebra of $\mathcal{M}$ such that the restriction of $\phi$ to $\mathcal{N}$ is semifinite and such that $\mathcal{N}$ is invariant by the modular group of $\phi$. Let $\mathcal{E}$ be the weight preserving conditional expectation from $\mathcal{M}$ onto $\mathcal{N}$. We prove the following inequality: \[\|x\|_p^2\ge\bigl \|\mathcal{E}(x)...

G. K. Pedersen and M. Takesaki have proved in 1973 that if $\varphi$ is a faithful, semi-finite, normal weight on a von Neumann algebra $M\;\!$, and $\psi$ is a $\sigma^{\varphi}$-invariant, semi-finite, normal weight on $M\;\!$, equal to $\varphi$ on the positive part of a weak${}^*$-dense $\sigma^{\varphi}$-invariant $*$-subalgebra of $\mathfrak{M}_{\varphi}\;\!$, then $\psi =\varphi\;\!$. In 1978 L. Zsid\'o extended the above result by proving: if $\varphi$ is as above, ...