We derive several numerical radius inequalities for 2 × 2 operator matrices. Numerical radius inequalities for sums and products of operators are given. Applications of our inequalities are also provided.

It is shown that if A is a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space, then 1/4 ||A*A + AA*|| ≤ (w(A))² ≤ 1/2 ||A*A + AA*||, where w(·) and ||·|| are the numerical radius and the usual operator norm, respectively. These inequalities lead to a considerable improvement of the well known inequalities 1/2 ||A|| ≤ w(A) ≤ || A||. Numerical radius inequalities for products and commutators of operators are also obtained.

We give several sharp inequalities involving powers of the numerical radii and the usual operator norms of Hilbert space operators. These inequalities, which are based on some classical convexity inequalities for nonnegative real numbers and some operator inequalities, generalize earlier numerical radius inequalities.

The main goal of this paper is to clarify the antisymmetric nature of a binary relation ≪ which is defined for normal operators A and B by: A ≪ B if there exists an operator T such that $E_A\left(\Delta \right)\le T*E_B\left(\Delta \right)T$ for all Borel subset Δ of the complex plane ℂ, where $E_A$ and $E_B$ are spectral measures of A and B, respectively (the operators A and B are allowed to act in different complex Hilbert spaces). It is proved that if A ≪ B and B ≪ A, then A and B are unitarily equivalent, which shows that the relation ≪ is a partial order...

We give several conditions for (A,m)-expansive operators to have the single-valued extension property. We also provide some spectral properties of such operators. Moreover, we prove that the A-covariance of any (A,2)-expansive operator T ∈ ℒ(ℋ ) is positive, showing that there exists a reducing subspace ℳ on which T is (A,2)-isometric. In addition, we verify that Weyl's theorem holds for an operator T ∈ ℒ(ℋ ) provided that T is (T*T,2)-expansive. We next study (A,m)-isometric operators as a special...

Let $L\left(H\right)$ denote the algebra of operators on a complex infinite dimensional Hilbert space $H$. For $A,B\in L\left(H\right)$, the generalized derivation ${\delta }_{A,B}$ and the elementary operator ${\Delta }_{A,B}$ are defined by ${\delta }_{A,B}\left(X\right)=AX-XB$ and ${\Delta }_{A,B}\left(X\right)=AXB-X$ for all $X\in L\left(H\right)$. In this paper, we exhibit pairs $(A,B)$ of operators such that the range-kernel orthogonality of ${\delta }_{A,B}$ holds for the usual operator norm. We generalize some recent results. We also establish some theorems on the orthogonality of the range and the kernel of ${\Delta }_{A,B}$ with respect to the wider class of unitarily invariant norms on...

In this paper, we prove sufficient conditions on pairs of weights (u,v) (scalar, matrix or operator valued) so that the Hilbert transform H f(x) = p.v. ∫ [f(y) / x - y] dy,is bounded from L2(u) to L2(v).

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...