Symmetric Norm Inequalities And Positive Semi-Definite Block-Matrices (1508.03754v3)

Abstract: For positive semi-definite block-matrix $M,$ we say that $M$ is P.S.D. and we write $M=\begin{pmatrix} A & X\ {X^*} & B\end{pmatrix} \in {\mathbb{M}}_{n+m}^+$, with $A\in {\mathbb{M}}_n^+$, $B \in {\mathbb{M}}_m^+.$ The focus is on studying the consequences of a decomposition lemma due to C.~Bourrin and the main result is extending the class of P.S.D. matrices $M$ written by blocks of same size that satisfies the inequality: $|M|\le |A+B|$ for all symmetric norms.