Real and complex operator norms

The primary purpose of the present paper is to investigate when relations of the types $|AB|=|A||B|$, $|A\pm B|\leq |A|+|B|$, $||A|-|B||\leq |A\pm B|$ and $|\overline{\text{Re} A}|\leq |A|$ (among others) hold in an unbounded operator setting. As interesting consequences, we obtain a characterization of (unbounded) self-adjointness as well as a characterization of invertibility for the class of unbounded normal operators.

We study Birkhoff-James orthogonality of bounded linear operators on complex Banach spaces and obtain a complete characterization of the same. By means of introducing new definitions, we illustrate that it is possible in the complex case, to develop a study of orthogonality of bounded (compact) linear operators, analogous to the real case. Furthermore, earlier operator theoretic characterizations of Birkhoff-James orthogonality in the real case, can be obtained as simple coro...

In this paper we study the theory of operators on complex Hilbert spaces, which achieve the norm in the unit sphere. We prove important results concerning the characterization of the AN operators, see Definition 1.2. The class of AN operators contains the algebra of the compact ones.

Let $H_1$, $H_2$ be complex Hilbert spaces. A bounded linear operator $T : H_1 \to H_2$ is said to be norm attaining if there exists a unit vector $x \in H_1$ such that $\|Tx\| = \|T\|$. If $T|_{M} : M \to H_2$ is norm attaining for every closed subspace $M$ of $H_1$, then we say that $T$ is an absolutely norm attaining ($\mathcal{AN}$-operator). If the norm of the operator is replaced by the minimum modulus $m(T) = \inf\{\|Tx\| : x \in H_1, \|x\| =1\}$, then $T$ is said to b...

We introduce a new norm, called $N^{p}$-norm $(1\leq{p}<\infty)$ on a space $N^{p}(V,W)$ where $V$ and $W$ are abstract operator spaces. By proving some fundamental properties of the space $N^{p}(V,W)$, we also obtain that if $W$ is complete, then the space $N^{p}(V,W)$ is also a Banach space with respect to this norm for $1\leq{p}<\infty$.

If $A,B$ are bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space, then % $w(A) \leq \frac{1}{2}\left( \|A\|+\sqrt{r\left(|A||A^*|\right)}\right)$ and $w(AB \pm BA)\leq 2\sqrt{2}\|B\|\sqrt{ w^2(A)-\frac{c^2(\Re (A))+c^2(\Im (A))}{2} },$ \begin{eqnarray*} w(A) &\leq& \frac{1}{2}\left( \|A\|+\sqrt{r\left(|A||A^*|\right)}\right),\\ w(AB \pm BA)&\leq& 2\sqrt{2}\|B\|\sqrt{ w^2(A)-\frac{c^2(\Re (A))+c^2(\Im (A))}{2} }, \end{eqnarray*} where $w(.),\|.\|,c(.)$ and $r(.)$ are the numer...

We define norms on $L_p(\mathcal{M}) \otimes M_n$ where $\mathcal{M}$ is a von Neumann algebra and $M_n$ is the complex $n \times n$ matrices. We show that a linear map $T: L_p(\mathcal{M}) \to L_q(\mathcal{N})$ is decomposable if $\mathcal{N}$ is an injective von Neumann algebra, the maps $T \otimes Id_{M_n}$ have a common upper bound with respect to our defined norms, and $p = \infty$ or $q = 1$. For $2p < q < \infty$ we give an example of a map $T$ with uniformly bounded m...

We show that the absolute numerical index of the space $L_p(\mu)$ is $p^{-1/p} q^{-1/q}$ (where $1/p+1/q=1$). In other words, we prove that $$ \sup\{\int |x|^{p-1}|Tx|\, d\mu \, : \ x\in L_p(\mu),\,\|x\|_p=1\} \,\geq \,p^{-\frac{1}{p}} q^{-\frac{1}{q}}\,\|T\| $$ for every $T\in \mathcal{L}(L_p(\mu))$ and that this inequality is the best possible when the dimension of $L_p(\mu)$ is greater than one. We also give lower bounds for the best constant of equivalence between the num...

In this paper we explore the properties of a bounded linear operator defined on a Banach space, in light of operator norm attainment. Using Birkhoff-James orthogonality techniques, we give a necessary condition for a bounded linear operator attaining norm at a particular point of the unit sphere. We prove a number of corollaries to establish the importance of our study. As part of our exploration, we also obtain a characterization of smooth Banach spaces in terms of operator ...

We introduce a product in all complex normed vector spaces, which generalizes the inner product of complex inner product spaces. Naturally the question occurs whether the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality is fulfilled. We provide a positive answer. This also yields a new proof of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in complex inner product spaces, which does not rely on the linearity of the inner product. The proof depends only on the norm in the vector space. Further, we present some prop...