Operator inequalities of Jensen type

Abstract

We present some generalized Jensen type operator inequalities involving sequences of self-adjoint operators. Among other things, we prove that if $f:[0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ is a continuous convex function with $f(0)\leq 0$, then {equation*} \sum_{i=1}^{n} f(C_i) \leq f(\sum_{i=1}^{n}C_i)-\delta_f\sum_{i=1}^{n}\widetilde{C}_i\leq f(\sum_{i=1}^{n}C_i) {equation*} for all operators $C_i$ such that $0 \leq C_i\leq M \leq \sum_{i=1}^{n} C_i $ \ $(i=1,...,n)$ for some scalar $M\geq0$, where $ \widetilde{C_i} = 1/2 - |\frac{C_i}{M}- 1/2 |$ and $\delta_f = f(0)+f(M) - 2 f(\frac{M}{2})$.