1. Introduction
Inequalities play a fundamental role in analysis and have widespread applications in various branches of mathematics. Among the most classical inequalities are Bessel’s inequality, Bombieri’s inequality, Selberg’s inequality, and Heilbronn’s inequality, which have been extensively studied and applied in many areas, including harmonic analysis, probability theory, and number theory. These inequalities are also widely used in the study of operators on Hilbert spaces.
Recently, there has been growing interest in the study of operators on positive semidefinite inner product spaces, also known as semi-Hilbert spaces. Semi-Hilbert spaces are a more general class of inner product spaces that are not necessarily complete, but satisfy certain axioms that allow for the development of a useful theory. In this paper, we focus on a positive semidefinite inner product space induced by a positive semi-definite operator A, and denote it as .
Semi-Hilbert spaces provide a natural framework for studying various mathematical problems, especially those involving singular or unbounded operators. Our paper contributes to the theory of semi-Hilbert spaces by establishing new Bombieri-type inequalities that generalize the classical Bessel inequality and several related results. Our proposed inequalities are novel and have the potential to be applied in various areas of analysis. In addition, our results provide deeper insight into the properties of operators on semi-Hilbert spaces. We begin by introducing the notation, recalling the definition of semi-Hilbert spaces, and presenting our main contributions.
Throughout this paper, we work with a complex Hilbert space
equipped with the inner product
and the norm
. The set of all bounded linear operators on
is denoted by
, and for a bounded linear operator
T on
, we use
to denote the range of
T,
to denote its null space, and
to denote its adjoint. We define
as the set of all bounded linear operators
A on
such that
for all
. The elements of
are called positive operators on
. In this paper, the term “operator” specifically refers to an element of the set
, and we assume that
A is a non-zero operator in
. For any such
A, we define a positive semidefinite sesquilinear form
by setting
for all
. We use the notation
to represent the seminorm induced by the positive semidefinite sesquilinear form
. This seminorm is defined on every vector
as
. We observe that the seminorm
vanishes on a vector
if and only if
x belongs to
. In addition, the seminorm
induces a norm on
if and only if
A is one-to-one. It follows that the semi-Hilbert space
is complete if and only if
is closed in
.
Now, we recall several well-known inequalities which hold true in inner product spaces that are real or complex. However, in this paper, we assume without loss of generality that
is always a complex Hilbert space. We begin with Bessel’s inequality, which is a fundamental result in functional analysis and has numerous important applications in various areas of mathematics and engineering. More precisely, Bessel’s inequality states that for any orthonormal vectors
in
, meaning that they satisfy
(where
is the Kronecker delta symbol) for all
, the following inequality holds:
for every
. For additional results related to Bessel’s inequality, readers are referred to [
1,
2] and Chapter XV of the book [
3].
In 1971, E. Bombieri [
4] proposed a generalization of Bessel’s inequality that applies to any set of vectors in the inner product space
. This generalization is known as Bombieri’s inequality, and it extends the applicability of Bessel’s inequality beyond orthonormal sets of vectors. When the vectors
are orthonormal, Bombieri’s inequality reduces to Bessel’s inequality (
1). To state Bombieri’s inequality, we first consider the set of vectors
. Then, for any vector
, the inequality can be written as follows:
This inequality has important applications in the theory of Fourier series and Fourier transforms. For more information about Bombieri’s inequality and its applications, refer to [
3,
4].
A further generalization of Bessel’s inequality was discovered by A. Selberg (see, e.g., [
3] (p. 394)). Suppose that
are vectors in
, where
for all
. Then Selberg’s inequality states that:
Selberg’s inequality is a generalization of Bessel’s inequality and applies to any set of vectors
in
. When the vectors
are orthonormal, inequality (
3) reduces to Bessel’s inequality (
1). Selberg’s inequality has important applications in harmonic analysis and mathematical physics, and has been extensively studied in the literature (see, e.g., [
5,
6]).
H. Heilbronn discovered a type of inequality related to Bessel’s result in 1958 [
7] (see also [
3] (p. 395)). Let
x be a vector in a Hilbert space
, and let
be vectors in
. Then the following inequality, known as Heilbronn’s inequality, holds:
In the special case where
are orthonormal, Heilbronn’s inequality (
4) reduces to the inequality (
2) of Bessel’s inequality. Heilbronn’s inequality has important applications in analysis and geometry, and has been studied extensively in the literature.
In 1992, J.E. Pečari’c [
8] (see also [
3] (p. 394)) derived a general inequality in inner product spaces. Let
and
. Then, the following inequality holds:
From this, we can conclude that,
Pečari’c showed that the Bombieri inequality (
2) can be derived from (
5) by choosing
(using the second inequality). The Selberg inequality (
3) can be obtained from the first part of (
5) by choosing
, for every
and the Heilbronn inequality (
4) can be obtained from the first part of (
5) by choosing
for any
Additional results related to the above bounds can be found in [
2,
9].
Very recently, the authors of this work (referenced as [
10]) have extended several well-known inequalities to the context of semi-Hilbert spaces in order to establish important bounds for the joint
A-numerical radius of semi-Hilbert space operators. In particular, Bombieri’s well-known inequality has been extended to the context of semi-Hilbert spaces. Specifically, the following inequality holds:
This study builds upon prior research conducted in [
10] and introduces various forms of inequality (
6) as its primary contribution. By obtaining these various forms, we can obtain a better understanding of the characteristics and connections between operators in semi-Hilbert spaces. These different expressions provide a more complete exploration and examination of the inequality, allowing for a broader and more detailed comprehension.
We conclude this section by providing a brief overview of the content covered in this paper. Specifically, our aim is to introduce and investigate several forms of the aforementioned inequalities within the setting of semi-Hilbert spaces. The focus of our study is on applying these inequalities to explore operator tuples within this context. We will present a set of inequalities that establish connections between the joint A-numerical radius and the Euclidean A-seminorm of operator tuples. Through the examination of these relationships, we seek to enhance our understanding of the behavior exhibited by operator tuples in semi-Hilbert spaces.
2. Preliminary Results
This section provides some preliminary results that will serve as building blocks for proving the main theorems. Specifically, we start by introducing an intriguing lemma that has its own value.
Lemma 1. Suppose we have vectors in and complex numbers in . Then the inequality below holds true:where Proof. Let
and
for all
. Then, we have:
By applying Hölder’s inequality, we obtain multiple inequalities. Specifically, for any
, we have:
We can also obtain the following using Hölder’s inequality:
Based on the previous inequalities, it can be deduced that
Thus, the first three inequalities in (
7) were derived.
Additionally, it can be shown by applying Hölder’s inequality again that:
Consequently, the next three inequalities in (
7) are proven.
Furthermore, we can use the same Hölder inequality to assert that:
Therefore, the proof of the lemma is complete as the last three inequalities stated in Equation (
7) have been demonstrated. □
In case we desire to establish certain bounds for based on we can make use of the following corollaries.
Corollary 1. Suppose that the conditions of Lemma 1 hold, where and are involved. Provided that and , the following inequality is valid:where Proof. The proof proceeds by observing the monotonicity of power means. Firstly, we can express that
Hence, we can derive that
We can obtain (
8) by utilizing the fifth inequality in (
7). Hence, the proof is finished □
Remark 1. A noteworthy special case occurs when which yields the following result: Corollary 2. Under the conditions of Lemma 1, if , the following corollary holds:where Proof. Since
and
then, we apply the sixth inequality in (
7) to derive (
9). □
Similarly, we can demonstrate the next two corollaries using analogous techniques.
Corollary 3. If and under the assumptions of Lemma 1, we have the following inequality:where Corollary 4. Assuming the conditions of Lemma 1, we can conclude that One may also find the following lemma to be of interest.
Lemma 2. Assuming the conditions of Lemma 1, the following inequalities hold: Proof. Based on Lemma 1, it is established that
By making a simple observation (also referenced in [
3] (p. 394)), it can be inferred that for any
, the inequality
holds. Therefore, we can conclude that
Therefore, we have established the validity of the first inequality in the Lemma.
The second part of the Lemma can be obtained by utilizing Hölder’s inequality, but we will not provide further elaboration on this. □
Based on the Lemma mentioned above, we are now in a position to state the following theorem as an application.
Theorem 1. For any vectors in and complex numbers , the following inequalities hold:where
Proof. First, we observe that:
We then apply Schwarz’s inequality for inner product spaces, resulting in:
Finally, Lemma 1 is utilized with
to obtain the desired inequality (
10). Further details have been omitted. □
If one requires bounds in terms of , the following corollaries may be of use:
Corollary 5. Under the assumptions of Theorem 1, and for , , , , the inequalityholds, and in particular, for , Proof. The proof for this corollary is analogous to the one presented in Corollary 1, and therefore, we omit it. □
Corollary 6. Assuming the conditions stated in Theorem 1 and for the following inequality holds:where Proof. The proof of this statement follows a similar approach to that of Corollary 2. □
The following two corollaries are additional results that can be derived from the preceding theorem. For the sake of brevity, we present them without providing their proofs.
Corollary 7. Assuming the same conditions hold for x, , and as mentioned above, and for , we have the following:where Corollary 8. Based on the conditions mentioned earlier for x, , and , we can derive the following inequality: To conclude this section, we would like to highlight an important observation. Specifically, leveraging Lemma 2 enables us to derive the following set of inequalities under the assumptions of Theorem 1, which we present in the form of the following remark:
Remark 2. By utilizing Lemma 2, we can demonstrate that assuming Theorem 1, the following inequalities hold:These inequalities provide alternative results to Pečarić’s inequality (
5).
3. Some Inequalities of Bombieri Type
In this section, we discuss inequalities of Bombieri type which can be derived from (
10) by setting
for
. By making this choice in the first inequality of (
10), the following inequality can be obtained:
Similarly, by choosing
for
in the second inequality of (
10), we obtain the following result:
which implies that
where
By using the same method of choosing
for
in the third to ninth inequalities in (
10), we can obtain the following results:
The third inequality in (
10) gives
The fourth inequality in (
10) leads to
where
The fifth inequality in (
10) implies
where
The sixth inequality in (
10) results in
where
The seventh inequality in (
10) provides
The eighth inequality in (
10) yields
where
Finally, the ninth inequality in (
10) produces
By setting
, where
are
A-orthonormal vectors in
, i.e.,
for all
, we can derive a set of inequalities that resemble Bessel’s inequality from the nine equalities mentioned above. More precisely, we have the following bounds:
where
where
where
where
. Finally, we have
The Corollaries 5–8 yield the following results. Specifically, if we set
in (
11), then
We can readily obtain the following inequality of Bombieri type:
where
By choosing
in the inequality, we can obtain the following Bombieri-type inequality:
A different proof of (
24) for the special case
can also be found in [
2].
We can apply a similar approach for (
13) by choosing
, which yields:
where
In conclusion, by setting
for
in (
14), we obtain the following inequality:
Remark 3. To compare the generalized Bombieri’s inequality (6) to our result presented in the subsequent inequality:we define the following two quantities:If are A-orthonormal vectors with , then , indicating that in this case, the inequality (
6)
provides a better bound than (
25).
On the other hand, let’s consider the case where and A is the identity operator on the real Hilbert space with the inner product . Let and be two positive real numbers. In this case, we haveAssuming that , we have . This shows that, in this case, the bound given by inequality (
25)
is better than the one given by inequality (
6).
Thus, it can be concluded that in general, the two bounds given by inequalities (
6)
and (
25)
are incomparable.
4. Inequalities for Operators
In this section, we will apply the inequalities obtained in the previous section to establish several inequalities for operators acting on semi-Hilbert spaces. Specifically, we will use the Bombieri-type inequalities in the context of semi-Hilbert spaces to obtain bounds for the joint A-numerical radius and the Euclidean A-seminorm of operator tuples.
To begin, we recall several terminologies and facts related to operator theory in the context of semi-Hilbert spaces. We start with the notion of
A-adjoint. For
, an operator
is called an
A-adjoint operator of
T if for every
, we have
, that is,
(see [
11]). Note that the existence of an
A-adjoint operator is not guaranteed for every operator. The set of all operators that admit
A-adjoints is denoted by
.
By Douglas theorem [
12], we have
if and only if
. If
, then the “reduced” solution of the equation
is a distinguished
A-adjoint operator of
T, which is denoted by
. Moreover, if
, then
and
, where
is the orthogonal projection onto the closure of the range of
A.
An important observation, as an application of Douglas theorem, is that operators in
, called
A-bounded operators, are characterized by the existence of a constant
such that
for all
. It is important to note that both
and
are subalgebras of
. However, they are neither closed nor dense in
, and the inclusions
are generally strict. Nevertheless, if
A is one-to-one and has a closed range, the inclusions hold with equality. For more information on results related to operator theory in semi-Hilbert spaces, we recommend referring to [
11,
13,
14,
15,
16].
For the sequel,
denotes the set of all
d-tuples of operators. Let
be a
d-tuple of operators. The following two quantities
are defined in [
17]. Here,
is the unit sphere of
with respect to the seminorm
, which is defined as the set of all vectors
such that
.
It is worth noting that both
and
may be equal to
even for
(see [
18]). However, if
, then they define two equivalent seminorms (see [
17]). In this case,
is called the joint
A-numerical radius of
, and
is called the joint operator
A-seminorm of
.
When
, we can obtain the definitions of the
A-numerical radius and the operator
A-seminorm of
T by setting
in (
26). Specifically, we have
The investigation of these quantities has been the subject of extensive research in the existing literature, as demonstrated by numerous studies including [
14,
15] and the references cited therein.
In [
14], a different joint
A-seminorm for
, called as Euclidean
A-seminorm, was introduced as
where
denotes the open unit ball of
given by
Our initial outcome in this section is described below:
Theorem 2. Suppose . Then, for all , , , and , satisfying and , the following holds: Proof. Let
and
. If we apply (
8) to
for every
, where
, we can infer that:
for
,
where
This is equivalent to
By considering the supremum of (
27) over
, we obtain:
which proves
Using (
28), we can conclude that:
Thus, we have shown that the desired inequality holds. □
Remark 4. A noteworthy special case arises when , which yields:for every . Also, Corollary 9. Let . Then for all and for with we have Proof. Let
and
be such that
For any
and
, we can utilize (
9) with
for every
to obtain:
Employing arguments similar to those used in the proof of Theorem 2, we conclude that:
The desired result follows directly from taking the supremum over all
in the last inequality. □
Remark 5. When we set in Equation (29), we obtain Additionally, we can apply Corollary 3 to obtain the next corollary.
Corollary 10. If we assume the conditions of Corollary 9 and , thenwhere Remark 6. Substituting into the corollary above, we obtain Utilizing Lemma 2, we can demonstrate in a similar fashion as previously stated that:
Theorem 3. Consider . Then, for any , it holds that:and Additionally, we obtain the following inequalities for the joint A-numerical radius:
Theorem 4. Let . Thenandwhere Also,where where where where and Proof. Let
. By applying (
15) to
, we obtain:
When the supremum is taken over
, the resulting value is obtained as
Thus, the first inequality in Theorem 4 has been proven.
Similarly, by using (
16), we obtain that
The above condition, i.e.,
and
, as mentioned earlier, leads to the derivation of the second inequality in Theorem 4.
By applying the inequalities (
17)–(
23), we can derive the subsequent expression for
:
where
where
where
where
and
When we take the supremum over
in the above inequalities, we obtain the desired inequalities of Theorem 4. □
The following is the final result of this paper:
Theorem 5. For , and for any , and , satisfying we have: Proof. If we choose
and
in the inequality (
11), where
, then we obtain:
where
This can be restated as
Taking the supremum over
in the inequality above yields
Consequently, inequality (
30) is established promptly. □
Remark 7. As a special case of Theorem 5, when we set , we obtain the inequality Remark 8. For , using (12) we can derive a similar inequality:where . On the other hand, from (13) we obtain:where and .