Weighted monotonicity inequalities for traces on operator algebras

Abstract

We study inequalities of the form

$$ \tau (w(A)^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}} f(A)w(A)^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}} ) \leqslant \tau (w(A)^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}} f(B)w(A)^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}} ),A \leqslant B $$

where τ is a trace on a von Neumann algebra or a C*-algebra, A and B are self-adjoint elements of the algebra in question, f and w are real-valued functions, and the “weight” function w is nonnegative.