Let $M_{n}$ denote the algebra of all $n\times n$ complex matrices, $M^{+}_{n}$ be the set of all the positive semidefinite matrices in $M_{n}.$ For two Hermitian matrices $A$ and $B$, $A\geq B$ means $A-B\in M^{+}_{n}, $ $A> B$ means $A-B\in M^{++}_{n}, $ where $M^{++}_{n}$ is the set of all the strictly positive matrices in $M_{n}.$ $I$ stands for the identity matrix. The Hilbert-Schmidt norm of $A=[a_{ij}]\in M_{n}$ is defined by $||A||_{2}=\sqrt{{\sum\limits_{i, j=1}^n}|a_{ij}|^{2}}.$ It is well-known that the Hilbert-Schmidt norm is unitarily invariant in the sense that $||UAV || = ||A||$ for all unitary matrices $U, V\in M_{n}.$ What's more, we use the following notions
for $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ and $0\leq v\leq1.$ Usually we denote by $A \nabla B, $ $A\sharp B$ and $A!B$ for brevity respectively when $v=\frac{1}{2}.$
In this paper, we setting $a, b>0.$ As we all know, the scalar harmonic-geometric-arithmetic mean inequalities
hold and the second inequality is called Young inequality. Similarly, we also have the related operator version
for two strictly positive operators $A$ and $B$.
The first refinements of Young inequality is the squared version proved in [1]
Later, the authors in [2] obtained the other interesting refinement
Then many results about Young inequalities presented in recent years. wa can see [3], [4] and [5] for some related results. Also, in [3] authors proved that
for $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ and $0\leq v\leq1.$
Alzer [6] proved that
for $0< \nu\leq\tau<1$ and $\lambda\geq1, $ which is a different form of $(1.5)$. By a similar technique, Liao [7] presented that
for $0< \nu\leq\tau<1$ and $\lambda\geq1.$ Sababheh [8] generalized $(1.6)$ and $(1.7)$ by convexity of function $f$
where $0< \nu\leq\tau<1$ and $\lambda\geq1.$ In the same paper [8], it is proved that
where $0< \nu\leq\tau<1$ and $\lambda\geq1.$
Our main task of this paper is to improved $(1.7)$ for scalar and matrix under some conditions. The article is organized in the following way: in Section 2, new refinements of harmonic-arithmetic mean are presented for scalars. In Section 3, similar inequalities for operators will be presented. And the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and determinant inequalities will be presented in Section 4 and 5 respectively.
In this part, we firstly give an improved version of harmonic-arithmetic mean inequality for scalar. It is also the base of this paper.
Theorem 2.1 Let $\nu, \tau $ a and $b$ are real positive numbers with $0< \nu, \tau<1, $ then we have
and
Proof Put $f(v)=\frac{1-v+vx-(1-v+vx^{-1})^{-1}}{v(1-v)}, $ then we have $f'(v)=\frac{1}{v^{2}(1-v)^{2}}h(x), $ where $h(x)=v(1-v)[x-1+(1-v+vx^{-1})^{-2}(\frac{1}{x}-1)]-(1-2v)[1-v+vx-(1-v+vx^{-1})^{-1}].$ By a carefully and directly computation, we can have $h'(x)=\frac{v^{2}}{((1-v)x+v)^{3}}g(x), $ where $g(x)=2(1-v)(1-x)-(1-v)x-v+((1-v)x+v)^{3}, $ so we can get $g'(x)=3(1-v)^{2}(x-1)((1-v)x+v+1)$ easily.
Now if $0<x\leq1, $ then $g'(x)\leq0, $ which means $g(x)\geq g(1)=0, $ and then $h'(x)\geq0;$ and if $1\leq x<\infty, $ then $g'(x)\geq0, $ which means $g(x)\geq g(1)=0, $ and then $h'(x)\geq0.$
That is to say that $h'(x)\geq0$ for all $x\in(0, \infty).$ Hence when $0<x\leq1, $ we have $h(x)\leq h(1)=0, $ and so $f'(v)\leq0, $ which means that $f(v)$ is decreasing on $(0, 1);$ and when $1\leq x<\infty, $ $h(x)\geq h(1)=0, $ and so $f'(v)\geq0, $ which means that $f(v)$ is increasing on $(0, 1).$ Put $x=\frac{b}{a}$, we can get our desired results easily.
Remark 2.2 Let $0<\nu\leq\tau<1$, then we have the following inequalities from (2.1),
On the other hand, when $0<\nu\leq\tau<1$ and $b-a<0$, we also have by(2.1),
which implies
by (2.2). Therefore, it is clearly that (2.3) and (2.5) are sharper than (1.7) under some conditions for $\lambda=1.$ Next, we give a quadratic refinement of Theorem 2.1, which is better than (1.7) when $\lambda=2.$
Theorem 2.3 Let $\nu, \tau, a$ and $b$ are real numbers with $0< \nu, \tau<1, $ then we have
Proof Put $f(v)=\frac{(1-v+vx)^{2}-(1-v+vx^{-1})^{-2}}{v(1-v)}, $ then we have $f'(v)=\frac{1}{v^{2}(1-v)^{2}}h(x), $ where
by a directly computation, we have $h'(x)=\frac{2xv^{2}}{((1-v)x+v)^{4}}g(v), $ where $g(v)=3(1-v)(1-x)-(1-v)x-v+((1-v)x+v)^{4}.$ By $g'(v)=-4(1-x)^{2}(1-v)[((1-v)x+v)^{2}+1+(1-v)x+v]\leq0, $ so we have $g(v)\geq g(1)=0, $ which means $h'(x)\geq0.$ Now if $0<x\leq1, $ then $h(x)\leq h(1)=0, $ and so $f'(v)\leq0, $ which means that $f(v)$ is decreasing on $(0, 1).$ On the other hand, if $1\leq x<\infty, $ then $h(x)\geq h(1)=0, $ and so $f'(v)\geq0, $ which means that $f(v)$ is increasing on $(0, 1).$ Put $x=\frac{b}{a}, $ we can get our desired results directly.
In this section, we will give some refinements of harmonic-arithmetic mean for operators, which are based on the inequalities $(2.1)$ and $(2.2)$.
Lemma3.1 Let $X\in M_{n}$ be self-adjoint and let $f$ and $g$ be continuous real functions such that $f(t)\geq g(t)$ for all $t\in Sp(X)$ (the Spectrum of $X$). Then $f(X)\geq g(X)$.
For more details about this property, readers can refer to [9].
Theorem 3.2 Let $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ and $0< \nu, \tau<1, $ then
for $(B-A)(\tau-\nu)\geq0;$and
for $(B-A)(\tau-\nu)\leq0.$
Proof Let $a=1$ in $(2.1), $ for $(b-1)(\tau-v)\geq0, $ we have
We may assume $0<\tau<v<1, $ and $0<b\leq1$. For $(B-A)(\tau-\nu)\geq0$, we have $A^{-\frac{1}{2}}BA^{-\frac{1}{2}}\leq I.$ The operator $X=A^{-\frac{1}{2}}BA^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ has a positive Spectrum. By Lemma3.1 and (3.3), we have
Multiplying (3.4) by $A^{\frac{1}{2}}$ on the both sides, we can get the desired inequality (3.1).
Using the same technique, we can get (3.2) by (2.2).Notice that the inequalities of Theorem 3.2 provide a refinement and a reverse of (1.2).
In this section, we will present inequalities of Theorem 2.2 for Hilbert-Schmidt norm.
Theorem 4.1 Let $X\in M_{n}$ and $B\in M^{++}_{n}$ for $0< v, \tau<1, $ then we have
for $(B-I)(\tau-v)\geq0;$and
for $(B-I)(\tau-v)\leq0.$
Proof Since $B$ is positive definite, it follows by spectral theorem that there exist unitary matrices $V\in M_{n}, $ such that $B=V\Lambda V^{\ast}, $ where $\Lambda=diag(\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}, \cdots, \nu_{n})$ and $\nu_{i}$ are eigenvalues of $B, $ so $\nu_{l}>0, \ l=1, 2, \cdots, n.$ Let $Y=V^{\ast}XV=[y_{il}], $ then
Now, by $(2.6)$ and the unitarily invariant of the Hilbert-Schmidt norm, we have
Here we completed the proof of (4.1). Using the same method in (2.7), we can get (4.2) easily. So we omit it.
It is clearly that Theorem 4.1 provided a refinement of Corollary 4.2 in [7].
Remark 4.2 Theorem 4.1 is not true in general when we exchange $I$ for $A, $ where $A$ is a positive definite matrix. That is: Let $X\in M_{n}$ and $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ for $0< \nu, \tau<1, $ then we can not have results as below:
for $(B-A)(\tau-\nu)\geq0$ and
Now we give the following example to state it.
Example 4.3 Let $ B= \left ( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} \frac{1}{2} & 0 \\ 0 & 1\\ \end{array}} \right ) $, $ A= \left ( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} \frac{1}{3} & 0\\ 0 & \frac{1}{2}\\ \end{array}} \right ) $ and $ X= \left ( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 1 & -1 \\ -1 & 2\\ \end{array}} \right ), $ then (4.3) and (4.4) are not true for $\nu=\frac{1}{2}$ and $\tau=\frac{2}{3}$.
Proof we can compute that
A careful calculation shows that
Let $\nu=\frac{1}{2}$ and $\tau=\frac{2}{3}$, then (4.5) implies
which implies that (4.3) is not true clearly. Similarly, we can also prove that (4.4) is not true by exchanging $\nu$ and $\tau$.
In this section, we will present inequalities of Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.2 for determinant. Before it, we should recall some basic signs. The singular values of a matrix $A$ are defined by $s_{j}(A), j=1, 2, \cdots, n.$ And we denote the values of $\{s_{j}(A)\}$ as a non-increasing order. Besides, $det(A)$ is the determinant of $A.$ To obtain our results, we need a following lemma.
Lemma 5.1 [10] (Minkowski inequality) Let $a=[a_{i}], \ b=[b_{i}], \ i=1, 2, \cdots, n$ such that $a_{i}, \ b_{i}$ are positive real numbers. Then
Equality hold if and only if $a=b.$
Theorem 5.2 Let $X\in M_{n}$ and $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ for $0< v, \tau<1, $ then we have for $(B-A)(\tau-v)\leq0, $
Proof We may assume $0<v<\tau<1, $ then $0<s_{j}(A^{-\frac{1}{2}}BA^{-\frac{1}{2}})\leq1$ for $(B-A)(\tau-v)\leq0, $ so we have $A^{-\frac{1}{2}}BA^{-\frac{1}{2}}\leq I.$ By the inequality (2.2) and we denote the positive definite matrix $T=A^{-\frac{1}{2}}BA^{-\frac{1}{2}}, $ then we have
for $j=1, 2, \cdots, n.$ It is a fact that the determinant of a positive definite matrix is product of its singular values, with Lemma 5.1, we have
Multiplying $(detA^{\frac{1}{2}})^{\frac{1}{n}}$ on the both sides of the inequalities above, we can get (5.1).
Theorem 5.3 Let $X\in M_{n}$ and $A, B\in M^{++}_{n}$ for $0< \nu, \tau<1, $ then we have for $(B-A)(\tau-\nu)\leq0:$
Proof Using the same technique above to $(2.4), $ we can easily get the proof of Theorem 5.3.