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We investigate the deformations of involution and multiplication in a unital C*-algebra when its norm is fixed. Our main result is to present all multiplications and involutions on a given C*-algebra 𝓐 under which 𝓐 is still a C*-algebra when we keep the norm unchanged. For each invertible element a ∈ 𝓐 we also introduce an involution and a multiplication making 𝓐 into a C*-algebra in which a becomes a positive element. Further, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the center of...

We present some generalized Jensen type operator inequalities involving sequences of self-adjoint operators. Among other things, we prove that if f : [0;1) → ℝ is a continuous convex function with f(0) ≤ 0, then [...] for all operators Ci such that [...] (i=1 , ... , n) for some scalar M ≥ 0, where [...] and [...]

We investigate a notion of relative operator entropy, which develops the theory started by J. I. Fujii and E. Kamei [Math. Japonica 34 (1989), 341-348]. For two finite sequences A = (A₁,...,Aₙ) and B = (B₁,...,Bₙ) of positive operators acting on a Hilbert space, a real number q and an operator monotone function f we extend the concept of entropy by setting $S_q^f\left(A\right|B):={\sum }_{j=1}^n{A}_j^{1/2}{\left(A_j^{-1/2}{B}_j{A}_j^{-1/2}\right)}^{q}f\left(A_j^{-1/2}{B}_j{A}_j^{-1/2}\right)A_j^{1/2}$, and then give upper and lower bounds for $S_q^f\left(A\right|B)$ as an extension of an inequality due to T. Furuta [Linear Algebra Appl. 381 (2004), 219-235] under...

Let t be a regular operator between Hilbert C*-modules and $t^{†}$ be its Moore-Penrose inverse. We investigate the Moore-Penrose invertibility of the Gram operator t*t. More precisely, we study some conditions ensuring that $t^{†}={(t*t)}^{†}t*=t*{(tt*)}^{†}$ and ${(t*t)}^{†}=t^{†}t{*}^{†}$. As an application, we get some results for densely defined closed operators on Hilbert C*-modules over C*-algebras of compact operators.