Numerical radius inequalities of $2 \times 2$ operator matrices

TL;DR

This paper develops refined bounds for the numerical radius of 2x2 operator matrices, providing new inequalities and conditions for equality, with applications to self-adjoint operators.

Contribution

It introduces improved upper and lower bounds for the numerical radius of 2x2 operator matrices, extending previous results and establishing equality conditions.

Findings

Derived new bounds for the numerical radius of 2x2 operator matrices.

Established equality conditions for the numerical radius of specific operator matrices.

Applied results to self-adjoint operators to relate norms and numerical radius.

Abstract

Several upper and lower bounds for the numerical radius of $2 \times 2$ operator matrices are developed which refine and generalize the earlier related bounds. In particular, we show that if $B,C$ are bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space, then \begin{eqnarray*} && \frac{1}{2}\max \left \{ \|B\|, \|C\| \right \}+\frac{1}{4} \left | \|B+C^*\|-\|B-C^*\| \right | &&\leq w \left(\left[\begin{array}{cc} 0 & B C& 0 \end{array}\right]\right)\\ &&\leq \frac{1}{2} \max \left\{\|B\|,\|C\|\right \}+\frac{1}{2}\max \left \{r^{\frac{1}{2}}(|B||C^*|),r^{\frac{1}{2}}(|B^*||C|)\right\}, \end{eqnarray*} where $w(.)$, $r(.)$ and $\|.\|$ are the numerical radius, spectral radius and operator norm of a bounded linear operator, respectively. We also obtain equality conditions for the numerical radius of the operator matrix $\left[\begin{array}{cc} 0 & B C& 0 \end{array}\right]$. As application of results obtained, we show that if $B,C$ are self-adjoint operators then, $\max \Big \{\|B+C\|^2 , \|B-C\|^2 \Big\}\leq \left \|B^2+C^2 \right \|+2w(|B||C|). $