Abstract: | Some quadratic identities associated with positive definite Hermitian matrices are derived by use of the theory of reproducing kernels. For example, the following identity is obtained: Let{Aj}mj=1 be N × N positive definite Hermitian matrices. Then, for any complex vector x ∈ N, we have the identity . The minimum is taken here over all the decompositions x =∑mj=1xj. This identity gives, in a sense, a precise converse for an inequality which was derived by T. Ando. Moreover, this paper shows that the sum of two reproducing kernels is naturally related to the harmonic-arithmetic-mean inequality for matrices and also that the geometric-arithmetic-mean inequality for matrices can be naturally interpreted in terms of tensor-product spaces. |