SPECTRAL ORDER OF OPERATORS AND FURUTA INEQUALITY

Abstract

By virtue of Furuta inequality, we show some characterizations of the spectral order of positive operators on a Hilbert space from the viewpoint of the Kan- torovich type inequality and the Riccati equation. Let A and B be positive operators on a Hilbert space. Then the spectral order AB holds if and only if there exist a unique positive contraction Tp,u such that Tp,uA p+u 2 Tp,u = A up 4 B p A up 4 for all p ≥ 0 and u ≥ 0. This form interpolates the chaotic order, δ-order and the usual order continuously. 1 Introduction. An operator means a bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space H. An operator A is said to be positive ( denoted by A ≥ 0) if (Ax, x) ≥ 0 for all x ∈ H.I n particular, we denote by A> 0i fA is positive and invertible. The usual order A ≥ B for selfadjoint operators A and B is defined by A − B ≥ 0. Let A and B be positive invertible operators. We introduce a function order A ≥f B for a real valued continuous function f on (0, ∞) defined by A ≥f B ⇐⇒ f(A) ≥ f(B).