{ "id": "1406.5686", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-06-22T08:59:34.000Z", "updated": "2014-07-02T05:41:58.000Z", "title": "Multivariate extensions of the Golden-Thompson inequality", "authors": [ "Frank Hansen" ], "comment": "Application in random matrix theory added", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We study concave trace functions of several operator variables and formulate and prove multivariate generalisations of the Golden-Thompson inequality. The obtained results imply that certain functionals in quantum statistical mechanics have bounds of the same form as they appear in classical physics.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-07-02T05:41:58.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "47A63" ], "keywords": [ "golden-thompson inequality", "multivariate extensions", "study concave trace functions", "operator variables", "multivariate generalisations" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1406.5686H" } } }