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In this paper we prove among others that, if (<italic>Aj</italic>)<italic>j</italic>=1,...,<italic>m</italic> are positive definite matrices of order <italic>n</italic> ≥ 2 and <italic>qj</italic> ≥ 0, <italic>j</italic> = 1, ..., <italic>m</italic> with <inline-formula><alternatives><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_awutm-2023-0003_eq_001.png"></inline-graphic><math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" id="M1"><mstyle displaystyle="true"><msubsup><mo>∑</mo><mrow><mi>j</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><mi>m</mi></msubsup><mrow><msub><mi>q</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></mstyle></math><tex-math>$$\sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^m {{q_j} = 1} $$</tex-math></alternatives></inline-formula>, then
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<tex-math><?CDATA \begin{eqnarray}0 &#x0026; \le \frac{1}{1-{\min }_{i\in \{1,\ldots ,m\}}\{{q}_{i}\}}\\ \times &#x0026; [\underset{i=1}{\overset{m}{{\sum }^{\text{}}}}{q}_{i}(1-{q}_{i}){[\det ({A}_{i})]}^{-1}-{2}^{n+1}\mathop{{\sum }^{\text{}}}\limits_{1\le i\lt j\le m}{q}_{i}{q}_{j}{[\det ({A}_{i}+{A}_{j})]}^{-1}]\\ \le &#x0026; \underset{i=1}{\overset{m}{{\sum }^{\text{}}}}{q}_{i}{[\det ({A}_{i})]}^{-1}-{[\det (\underset{i=1}{\overset{m}{{\sum }^{\text{}}}}{q}_{i}{A}_{i})]}^{-1}\\ \le &#x0026; \frac{1}{{\min }_{i\in \{1,\ldots ,m\}}\{{q}_{i}\}}\\ \times &#x0026; [\underset{i=1}{\overset{m}{{\sum }^{\text{}}}}{q}_{i}(1-{q}_{i}){[\det ({A}_{i})]}^{-1}-{2}^{n+1}\mathop{{\sum }^{\text{}}}\limits_{1\le i\lt j\le m}{q}_{i}{q}_{j}{[\det ({A}_{i}+{A}_{j})]}^{-1}].\end{eqnarray}?></tex-math></alternatives></disp-formula>
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In this paper we prove among others that, if (Aj)j=1,...,m are positive definite matrices of order n ≥ 2 and qj ≥ 0, j = 1, ..., m with ∑j=1mqj=1$$\sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^m {{q_j} = 1} $$, then
0≤11−mini∈{1,…,m}{ qi }×[ ∑​i=1mqi(1−qi)[ det(Ai) ]−1−2n+1∑​1≤i<j≤mqiqj[ det(Ai+Aj) ]−1 ]≤∑​i=1mqi[ det(Ai) ]−1−[ det(∑​i=1mqiAi) ]−1≤1mini∈{1,…,m}{ qi }×[ ∑​i=1mqi(1−qi)[ det(Ai) ]−1−2n+1∑​1≤i<j≤mqiqj[ det(Ai+Aj) ]−1 ].

Determinant Inequalities for Positive Definite Matrices Via Diananda’s Result for Arithmetic and Geometric Weighted Means

Annals of West University of Timisoara - Mathematics and Computer Science

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In this paper we prove among others that, if (Aj)j=1,...,m are positive definite matrices of order n ≥ 2 and qj ≥ 0, j = 1, ..., m with...

Determinant Inequalities for Positive Definite Matrices Via Diananda’s Result for Arithmetic and Geometric Weighted Means

Published Online: May 03, 2023

Page range: 21 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/awutm-2023-0003

Keywords
Positive definite matrices, Determinants, Inequalities

© 2023 Silvestru Sever Dragomir, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Determinant Inequalities for Positive Definite Matrices Via Diananda’s Result for Arithmetic and Geometric Weighted Means

Published Online: May 03, 2023

Page range: 21 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/awutm-2023-0003

KeywordsPositive definite matrices, Determinants, Inequalities

© 2023 Silvestru Sever Dragomir, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Positive definite matrices, Determinants, Inequalities