Ky Fan sums of singular values #
For a linear map A : E โโ[๐] F between finite-dimensional inner product spaces, the Ky Fan
k-sum A.kyFanSum k = โ_{i < k} ฯแตข(A) is the sum of its k largest singular values. This file
proves Ky Fan's maximum principle: for orthonormal families (uแตข) in F and (vแตข) in E with
k members,
โโแตข โชuแตข, A vแตขโซโ โค ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A),
with equality attained by the leading singular pairs. The resulting variational characterization
LinearMap.kyFanSum_le_iff exhibits each Ky Fan sum as a supremum of the seminorms
A โฆ โโแตข โชuแตข, A vแตขโซโ, so the Ky Fan sums inherit the triangle inequality, homogeneity, and
invariance under isometric changes of coordinates, with no comparison of individual singular
values. The same weight argument gives Ky Fan's trace inequality for a symmetric operator: over an
orthonormal family with k members, the diagonal entries re โชT wแตข, wแตขโซ sum to at most the sum
of the k largest eigenvalues of T.
The bound expands A in its singular system A x = โโฑผ ฯโฑผ โชvโฑผ', xโซ uโฑผ'. The total weight that the
two families place on the j-th singular pair is at most 1 by Bessel's inequality, and the
weights add up to at most k by Parseval's identity; such weights against the antitone sequence
of singular values give at most the sum of its first k terms
(LinearMap.sum_singularValues_mul_le_kyFanSum).
Main declarations #
LinearMap.kyFanSum: the Ky Fank-sum of singular values.LinearMap.norm_sum_inner_le_kyFanSum: Ky Fan's maximum principle, the upper bound.LinearMap.sum_re_inner_apply_le_kyFanSum: the corresponding upper bound for the real parts of the diagonal pairings.LinearMap.sum_antitone_mul_re_inner_le_sum_mul_singularValues: the same bound with the diagonal pairings weighted by an antitone nonnegative sequence.LinearMap.exists_orthonormal_sum_inner_eq_kyFanSum: the leading singular pairs attain it.LinearMap.IsPositive.exists_orthonormal_sum_re_inner_eq_kyFanSum: for a positive endomorphism a single orthonormal family attains it on the diagonal,โแตข re โชvแตข, A vแตขโซ = ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A).LinearMap.norm_sum_inner_add_inner_le_kyFanSum: the upper bound for families transformed by two pairs of symmetric operators whose squared norms add up to at most the identity.LinearMap.norm_trace_comp_linearIsometryEquiv_le_kyFanSum,LinearMap.exists_linearIsometryEquiv_trace_comp_eq_kyFanSum: for an endomorphismAof ann-dimensional space,ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A)is the largest value ofโtr (A Q)โover isometric automorphismsQ, and it is attained withtr (A Q)real.LinearMap.kyFanSum_le_iff: the variational characterization.LinearMap.kyFanSum_add_le: the Ky Fan triangle inequality.LinearMap.isWeaklyMajorizedBy_singularValues_add: its restatement as the weak majorizationฯ(A + B) โบw ฯ(A) + ฯ(B).LinearMap.kyFanSum_smul,LinearMap.kyFanSum_adjoint,LinearMap.kyFanSum_linearIsometryEquiv_comp,LinearMap.kyFanSum_comp_linearIsometryEquiv: homogeneity, and invariance under adjoints and isometric changes of coordinates.LinearMap.kyFanSum_subtype_comp_comp_orthogonalProjectionOnto: extending a map by zero between source and target ambient spaces preserves its Ky Fan sums.LinearMap.IsSymmetric.sum_re_inner_apply_self_le_sum_eigenvalues: Ky Fan's trace inequality.
Provenance #
The zero-extension Ky Fan identity is adapted from
ForTauCeti/Analysis/InnerProductSpace/SinTheta/Perturbation.lean in the
AIQ-Kitware DKPS formalization (Apache-2.0; Jon Crall and GPT-6).
References #
- K. Fan, Maximum properties and inequalities for the eigenvalues of completely continuous operators, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 37 (1951), 760โ766.
- R. A. Horn and C. R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2013, Section 3.4.
- R. Bhatia, Matrix Analysis, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 169, Springer, 1997, Section IV.2.
The Ky Fan k-sum of A: the sum ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A) of its k largest singular
values.
Instances For
Only the first rank A singular values can be nonzero, so the Ky Fan sums stop growing at the
rank.
Taking the adjoint preserves every Ky Fan sum, since A and adjoint A have the same
singular values.
Weights cโฑผ โ [0, 1] of total mass at most k on the singular values of A give at most the
Ky Fan k-sum: โโฑผ ฯโฑผ cโฑผ โค ฯโ + โฏ + ฯโโโ.
Ky Fan's maximum principle for pairs of contractions. Let Pโ, Qโ be symmetric operators
on F with โPโ yโยฒ + โQโ yโยฒ โค โyโยฒ for every y, and Pโ, Qโ symmetric operators on E with
โPโ xโยฒ + โQโ xโยฒ โค โxโยฒ for every x. For orthonormal families (uแตข) in F and (vแตข) in E
with k members, โโแตข (โชPโ uแตข, A (Pโ vแตข)โซ + โชQโ uแตข, A (Qโ vแตข)โซ)โ is at most the Ky Fan k-sum of
A.
With Pโ = Pโ = 1 and Qโ = Qโ = 0 this is Ky Fan's maximum principle
LinearMap.norm_sum_inner_le_kyFanSum. For symmetric S on F and T on E with eigenvalues
ฮฑแตข and ฮฒโฑผ, taking Pโ = sin (ฯ S), Qโ = cos (ฯ S), Pโ = cos (ฯ T) and Qโ = -sin (ฯ T),
it bounds sums twisted by the phases sin (ฯ (ฮฑแตข - ฮฒโฑผ)), without passing to complex scalars.
Ky Fan's maximum principle, the upper bound: for orthonormal families (uแตข) in F and
(vแตข) in E with k members, โโแตข โชuแตข, A vแตขโซโ is at most the Ky Fan k-sum of A.
The real diagonal pairing of two orthonormal families under A is bounded by the Ky Fan sum
of its singular values.
Weighted Ky Fan trace core. If the partial real diagonal pairings of two orthonormal
families are bounded by the Ky Fan sums, pairing them with weights that are antitone on the first
n indices and nonnegative at the last one is bounded by the same weighted pairing with the
singular values.
Ky Fan's maximum principle, attainment: the first k right singular vectors and the
corresponding unit left singular vectors, completed where the singular value vanishes, are
orthonormal families with โแตข โชuแตข, A vแตขโซ = ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A).
Ky Fan's maximum principle for positive endomorphisms, attainment: for a positive
endomorphism A of a finite-dimensional space and k โค dim E, some orthonormal family of k
vectors has โแตข re โชvแตข, A vแตขโซ = ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A).
For an endomorphism A of an n-dimensional inner product space and an isometric automorphism
Q, โtr (A Q)โ โค ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A), the sum of all singular values of A.
For an endomorphism A of an n-dimensional inner product space, some isometric automorphism
Q has tr (A Q) = ฯโ(A) + โฏ + ฯโโโ(A), the sum of all singular values of A. By
LinearMap.norm_trace_comp_linearIsometryEquiv_le_kyFanSum this is the largest value of
โtr (A Q)โ over isometric automorphisms Q.
The variational characterization of the Ky Fan sums: A.kyFanSum k โค c exactly when
โโแตข โชuแตข, A vแตขโซโ โค c for all orthonormal families (uแตข) in F and (vแตข) in E with at most
k members.
The Ky Fan triangle inequality: Kโ(A + B) โค Kโ(A) + Kโ(B) for every k.
Singular-value triangle majorization. For every length n, the first n singular values
of A + B are weakly majorized by the coordinatewise sums of the first n singular values of A
and of B.
The Ky Fan sums are absolutely homogeneous: Kโ(c โข A) = โcโ Kโ(A).
Composing on the left with an isometric isomorphism leaves the Ky Fan sums unchanged.
Composing on the right with an isometric isomorphism leaves the Ky Fan sums unchanged.
Extending a map T : U โ W by zero on Uแฎ, then including the image
in the target ambient space, does not change its Ky Fan singular-value sums.
Ky Fan's trace inequality: for a symmetric T and an orthonormal family (wแตข) with k
members, โแตข re โชT wแตข, wแตขโซ is at most the sum ฮปโ + โฏ + ฮปโโโ of the k largest eigenvalues
of T.