On the complete boundedness of the Schur block product

We give a Stinespring representation of the Schur block product, say (*), on pairs of square matrices with entries in a C*-algebra as a completely bounded bilinear operator of the form: A:=(a_{ij}), B:= (b_{ij}): A (*) B := (a_{ij}b_{ij}) = V* pi(A) F pi(B) V, such that V is an isometry, pi is a *-representation and F is a self-adjoint unitary. This implies an inequality due to Livshits and two apparently new ones on diagonals of matrices. ||A (*) B|| \leq ||A||_r ||B||_c operator, row and column norm; - diag(A*A) \leq A* (*) A \leq diag(A*A), and for all vectors f, g: | |^2 \leq < diag(AA*) g, g> .Comment: 10 p, revised, expanded and to appear in Proc. AM

Resolution of Peller's problem concerning Koplienko-Neidhardt trace formulae

A formula for the norm of a bilinear Schur multiplier acting from the Cartesian product $\mathcal S^2\times \mathcal S^2$ of two copies of the Hilbert-Schmidt classes into the trace class $\mathcal S^1$ is established in terms of linear Schur multipliers acting on the space $\mathcal S^\infty$ of all compact operators. Using this formula, we resolve Peller's problem on Koplienko-Neidhardt trace formulae. Namely, we prove that there exist a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ with a bounded second derivative, a self-adjoint (unbounded) operator $A$ and a self-adjoint operator $B\in \mathcal S^2$ such that $$ f(A+B)-f(A)-\frac{d}{dt}(f(A+tB))\big\vert_{t=0}\notin \mathcal S^1. $

Quasi-nilpotency of generalized Volterra operators on sequence spaces

We study the quasi-nilpotency of generalized Volterra operators on spaces of power series with Taylor coefficients in weighted $\ell^p$ spaces $1<p<+\infty$ . Our main result is that when an analytic symbol $g$ is a multiplier for a weighted $\ell^p$ space, then the corresponding generalized Volterra operator $T_g$ is bounded on the same space and quasi-nilpotent, i.e. its spectrum is $\{0\}.$ This improves a previous result of A. Limani and B. Malman in the case of sequence spaces. Also combined with known results about multipliers of $\ell^p$ spaces we give non trivial examples of bounded quasi-nilpotent generalized Volterra operators on $\ell^p$. We approach the problem by introducing what we call Schur multipliers for lower triangular matrices and we construct a family of Schur multipliers for lower triangular matrices on $\ell^p, 1<p<\infty$ related to summability kernels. To demonstrate the power of our results we also find a new class of Schur multipliers for Hankel operators on $\ell^2$, extending a result of E. Ricard.Comment: 14 pages; The main theorems are the same as in v1, the presentation of the material though, has changed drasticall

Complete boundedness of the Heat Semigroups on the von Neumann Algebra of hyperbolic groups

We prove that $(\lambda_g\mapsto e^{-t|g|^r}\lambda_g)_{t>0}$ defines a completely bounded semigroup of multipliers on the von Neuman algebra of hyperbolic groups for all real number $r$. One ingredient in the proof is the observation that a construction of Ozawa allows to characterize the radial multipliers that are bounded on every hyperbolic graph, partially generalizing results of Haagerup--Steenstrup--Szwarc and Wysocza\'nski. Another ingredient is an upper estimate of trace class norms for Hankel matrices, which is based on Peller's characterization of such norms.Comment: v2: 28 pages, with new examples, new results, motivations and hopefully a better presentatio

Operator Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces

Let $X$, $Y$ be Banach spaces and let $\mathcal{L}(X,Y)$ be the space of bounded linear operators from $X$ to $Y$. We develop the theory of double operator integrals on $\mathcal{L}(X,Y)$ and apply this theory to obtain commutator estimates of the form $\|f(B)S-Sf(A)\|_{\mathcal{L}(X,Y)}\leq \textrm{const} \|BS-SA\|_{\mathcal{L}(X,Y)}$ for a large class of functions $f$, where $A\in\mathcal{L}(X)$, $B\in \mathcal{L}(Y)$ are scalar type operators and $S\in \mathcal{L}(X,Y)$. In particular, we establish this estimate for $f(t):=|t|$ and for diagonalizable operators on $X=\ell_{p}$ and $Y=\ell_{q}$, for $p<q$ and $p=q=1$, and for $X=Y=\mathrm{c}_{0}$. We also obtain results for $p\geq q$. We also study the estimate above in the setting of Banach ideals in $\mathcal{L}(X,Y)$. The commutator estimates we derive hold for diagonalizable matrices with a constant independent of the size of the matrix.Comment: Final version published in Studia Mathematica, with some minor change