Journal of Lie Theory 32 (2022), No. 1, 175--190
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2022
Operator Means of Lower Triangular Matrices
Hayoung Choi
Dept. of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
hayoung.choi@knu.ac.kr
Yongdo Lim
Dept. of Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
ylim@skku.edu
[Abstract-pdf]
We show that every Kubo-Ando operator mean of positive definite operators exists on the solvable Lie group of lower triangular matrices with positive diagonal entries. In particular, we show that the operator geometric mean of such lower triangular matrices appears as the common limit of the iteration process of the arithmetic and harmonic means. We further show that the iteration terminates in the finite number $\lceil\log_2 m \rceil$ of iterations for $m\times m$ lower unitriangular matrices and present its entrywise closed form for $m\leq 4.$
Keywords: Operator mean, geometric mean, lower triangular matrix, nilpotent Lie group, Newton's square root algorithm.
MSC: 22E25, 15B48, 15B99, 27A64.
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