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Inequality with Applications in Statistical Mechanics

J. Math. Phys. 6, 1812 (1965); doi:10.1063/1.1704727

Issue Date: November 1965

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Colin J. Thompson
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
We prove for Hermitian matrices (or more generally for completely continuous self-adjoint linear operators in Hilbert space) A and B that Tr (eA+B) <= Tr (eAeB). The inequality is shown to be sharper than the convexity property (0 <= alpha <= 1) Tr (ealphaA+(1−alpha)B) <= [Tr (eA)]alpha[Tr (eB)]1−alpha, and its possible use for obtaining upper bounds for the partition function is discussed briefly. ©1965 The American Institute of Physics
History: Received 18 March 1965
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  1. Theorem I, and Lemma 2 in Sec. 2 (for positive-definite matrices only), have recently been proved independently by S. Golden, Phys. Rev. 137, B1127 (1965).
  2. D. Ruelle, Helv. Phys. Acta 36, 789 (1963).
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  5. see also G. Polya, ibid. 36, 49 (1950).
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