高登-湯普森不等式
在物理學和數學上,高登─湯普森不等式(Golden–Thompson inequality)是一個由Golden (1965)和Thompson (1965)二氏所證明的不等式,該不等式的定義如下:
若和是埃爾米特矩陣,則以下不等式成立:
其中指的是矩陣的跡,而則是矩陣指數。此不等式在統計力學上相當重要,而此不等式一開始也是由此而生的。
貝多蘭‧康斯坦多(Bertram Kostant)在1973年利用康斯坦多凸性定理(Kostant convexity theorem)將此不等式推廣到所有的緊緻李群(compact Lie group)之上。
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外部連結
- Tao, T., The Golden–Thompson inequality, 2010 [2013-12-14], (原始內容存檔於2013-12-18)(裡面有附上定理的證明)