Inequalities on the joint and generalized spectral and essential spectral radius of the Hadamard geometric mean of bounded sets of positive kernel operators

Abstract: Let $\Psi$ and $\Sigma$ be bounded sets of positive kernel operators on a Banach function space $L$. We prove several refinements of the known inequalities $$\rho \left(\Psi ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} \circ \Sigma ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} \right) \le \rho (\Psi \Sigma) ^{\frac{1}{2}} \;\; \mathrm{and}\;\; \hat{\rho} \left(\Psi ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} \circ \Sigma ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} \right) \le \hat{\rho} (\Psi \Sigma) ^{\frac{1}{2}} $$ for the generalized spectral radius $\rho$ and the joint spectral radius $\hat{\rho}$, where $\Psi ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} \circ \Sigma ^{\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)} $ denotes the Hadamard (Schur) geometric mean of the sets $\Psi $ and $\Sigma$. Furthermore, we prove that analogous inequalities hold also for the generalized essential spectral radius and the joint essential spectral radius in the case when $L$ and its Banach dual $L^*$ have order continuous norms.