Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110 016, India ; Institute of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract:
Let be a compact operator on a Hilbert space such that the operators and are positive. Let be the singular values of and the eigenvalues of , all enumerated in decreasing order. We show that the sequence is majorised by . An important consequence is that, when is less than or equal to , and when this inequality is reversed.