Sums and products of symplectic eigenvalues

Abstract

For every $2n\times 2n$ real positive definite matrix $A,$ there exists a real symplectic matrix $M$ such that $M^TAM=\diag(D,D),$ where $D$ is the $n\times n$ positive diagonal matrix with diagonal entries $d_1(A)\le \cdots\le d_n(A).$ The numbers $d_1(A),\ldots,d_n(A)$ are called the symplectic eigenvalues of $A.$ We derive analogues of Wielandt's extremal principle and multiplicative Lidskii's inequalities for symplectic eigenvalues.