Refined numerical radius estimates and Euclidean operator radius

TL;DR

This paper introduces refined bounds for the numerical radius of operators on complex Hilbert spaces, develops new inequalities involving Euclidean operator radius, and improves existing bounds for operator commutators.

Contribution

It provides new refined inequalities for the numerical radius, including bounds involving operator norms and Euclidean operator radius, with equality characterizations and applications to commutator inequalities.

Findings

New bounds for numerical radius involving operator norms.

Enhanced inequalities for sums and products of operators.

Improved bounds for commutator numerical radius inequalities.

Abstract

We obtain new lower and upper bounds for the numerical radius of a bounded linear operator $A$ on a complex Hilbert space, which refine the existing ones. In particular, if $w(A)$ and $\|A\|$ denote the numerical radius and operator norm of $A$, respectively, then we show that \begin{eqnarray*} \nu(A) + \frac{1}{4} \left\||A|^2+|A^*|^2\right\| \leq w^2(A) \leq \frac12 w\left(\frac{|A|+|A^*|}{2}A \right)+ \frac14 \left\| |A|^2+ \left( \frac{|A|+|A^*|}{2}\right)^2 \right\|, \end{eqnarray*} where $\nu(A)\geq 0$ is a real number involving the operator norm of the Cartesian decomposition of $A$. We also develop several new numerical radius inequalities for the products and sums of operators via Euclidean operator radius of $2$-tuples of operators. In addition, we deduce equality characterizations for the inequalities. As an application, we obtain numerical radius inequalities for the commutators of operators, which improves the Fong and Holbrook's inequality $w(AB\pm BA) \leq 2\sqrt{2} w(A) \|B\|$ [Canadian J. Math. 1983].