Muddappa Seetharama Gowda

arXiv2024

Completely mixed linear games and irreducibility concepts for Z-transformations over self-dual cones

In the setting of a self-dual cone in a finite-dimensional inner product space, we consider (zero-sum) linear games. In our previous work, we showed that a Z-transformation with positive value is completely mixed. The present paper considers the case when the value is zero. Motivated by the matrix game result that a Z-matrix with value zero is completely mixed if and only if it is irreducible, we formulate our general results based on the concepts of cone-irreducibility and space-irreducibility. While the concept of cone-irreducibility for a positive linear transformation is well-known, we introduce space-irreducibility for a general linear transformation by reformulating the irreducibility concept of Elsner. Our main result is that for a Z-transformation with value zero, space-irreducibility is necessary and sufficient for the completely mixed property. We also extend a recent result of Parthasarathy et al. on matrix games with value zero to the setting of a symmetric cone (in a Euclidean Jordan algebra). Additionally, we present a refined cone/space-irreducibility result for positive transformations on symmetric cones.

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arXiv2018

A Hölder type inequality and an interpolation theorem in Euclidean Jordan algebras

In a Euclidean Jordan algebra V of rank n which carries the trace inner product, to each element x we associate the eigenvalue vector whose components are the eigenvalues of x written in the decreasing order. For any number p between (and including) one and infinity, we define the spectral p-norm of x to be the p-norm of the corresponding eigenvalue vector in the Euclidean n-space. In this paper, we show that for any two elements x and y, the one-norm of the Jordan product xoy is less than or equal to the product of p-norm of x and q-norm of y, where q is the conjugate of p. For a linear transformation on V, we state and prove an interpolation theorem relative to these spectral norms. In addition, we compute/estimate the norms of Lyapunov transformations, quadratic representations, and positive transformations on V.

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