Refinements of norm and numerical radius inequalities

TL;DR

This paper provides new refined inequalities relating the norm and numerical radius of bounded linear operators on complex Hilbert spaces, improving existing bounds and establishing novel inequalities involving operator functions.

Contribution

It introduces refined bounds for the numerical radius and operator norm, extending and improving classical inequalities such as those by Bhatia and Kittaneh.

Findings

New bounds for the numerical radius involving operator norms.

Refined inequalities for the product of operators and their adjoints.

Improved inequalities generalizing classical results.

Abstract

Several refinements of norm and numerical radius inequalities of bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space are given. In particular, we show that if $A$ is a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space, then $$ \frac{1}{4}\|A^*A+AA^*\| \leq \frac{1}{8}\bigg( \|A+A^*\|^2+\|A-A^*\|^2 +c^2(A+A^*)+c^2(A-A^*)\bigg) \leq w^2(A)$$ and \begin{eqnarray*} \frac{1}{2}\|A^*A+AA^*\| - \frac{1}{4}\bigg\|(A+A^*)^2 (A-A^*)^2 \bigg\|^{1/2} \leq w^2(A) \leq \frac{1}{2}\|A^*A+AA^*\|, \end{eqnarray*} %$$ \frac{1}{4}\|A^*A+AA^*\| \leq \frac{1}{2}w^2(A) + \frac{1}{8}\bigg\|(A+A^*)^2 (A-A^*)^2 \bigg\|^{1/2}\leq w^2(A),$$ where $\|.\|$, $w(.)$ and $c(.)$ are the operator norm, the numerical radius and the Crawford number, respectively. Further, we prove that if $A,D$ are bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space, then \begin{eqnarray*} \|AD^*\| \leq \left\| \int_0^1 \left( (1-t) \left(\frac{ |A|^2+|D|^2}{2}\right) +t\|AD^*\|I \right)^2dt \right\|^{1/2} \leq \frac{1}{2}\left\| |A|^2+|D|^2 \right\|, \end{eqnarray*} where $|A|=(A^*A)^{1/2}$ and $|D|=(D^*D)^{1/2}$. This is a refinement of well known inequality obtained by Bhatia and Kittaneh.