Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, ( ISI ), Volume (381), No (1), Year (2011-6) , Pages (546-556)

Title : ( A treatment of the Cauchy--Schwarz inequality in C^* -modules )

Authors: Ljiljana Arambasic , Damir Bakic , Mohammad Sal Moslehian ,

Access to full-text not allowed by authors

Citation: BibTeX | EndNote

Abstract

We study the Cauchy--Schwarz and some related inequalities in a semi-inner product module over a C^* -algebra { mathscr A} . The key idea is to consider a semi-inner product { mathscr A} -module as a semi-inner product { mathscr A} -module with respect to another semi-inner product. In this way, we improve some inequalities such as the Ostrowski inequality and an inequality related to the Gram matrix. The induced semi-inner products are also related to the the notion of covariance and variance. Furthermore, we obtain a sequence of nested inequalities that emerges from the Cauchy--Schwarz inequality. As a consequence, we derive some interesting operator-theoretical corollaries. In particular, we show that the sequence arising from our construction, when applied to a positive invertible element of a C^* -algebra, converges to its inverse.

Keywords

, C^* -algebra, semi-inner product C^* -module, positive operator, Cauchy--Schwarz inequality, Gram matrix, covariance--variance inequality, Ostrowski inequality