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Young type inequalities for positive operators. (English) Zbl 1279.47031
The well-known Young inequality states that, if $$a,b\geq0$$ and $$0\leq\nu\leq1$$, then $a^{\nu}b^{1-\nu}\leq \nu a+(1-\nu)b.$ It is known that, if we replace the scalars $$a,b$$ with two positive operators $$A,B\in\mathbb{B}(H)$$, the above inequality does not hold. However, T. Ando [Oper. Theory, Adv. Appl. 75, 33–38 (1994; Zbl 0830.47010)] proved that $|||A^{\nu}X B^{1-\nu}|||\leq \nu |||AX|||+(1-\nu)|||XB|||$ for positive operators $$A,B$$ and a unitarily invariant norm $$|||\cdot|||$$. In Section 2, the author presents a refinement of Ando’s inequality. In Section 3, he reviews some results related to the Heinz inequality [E. Heinz, Math. Ann. 123, 415–438 (1951; Zbl 0043.32603)] and improves some of them. Furthermore, some new proofs of known results are obtained.

##### MSC:
 47A63 Linear operator inequalities 47A30 Norms (inequalities, more than one norm, etc.) of linear operators 15A60 Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory
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