Accretive Partial Transpose Matrices and Their Connections to Matrix Means

Abstract

Accretive partial transpose (APT) matrices have been recently defined, as a natural extension of positive partial transpose (PPT) matrices. In this paper, we discuss further properties of APT matrices in a way that extends some of those properties known for PPT matrices. Among many results, we show that if \(A,B,X\) are $n\times n$ complex matrices such that \(A,B\) are sectorial with sector angle $\alpha$ for some \(\alpha\in [0,\pi/2)\), and if \(f:(0,\infty)\to(0,\infty)\) is a certain operator monotone function such that \(\begin{bmatrix} \cos^2(\alpha) f(A) & X X^* & \cos^2(\alpha) f(B) \end{bmatrix}\) is APT, Then \(\begin{bmatrix} f(A)\nabla_t f(B) & X X^* & f(A \nabla_tB ) \end{bmatrix}\) is APT for any \(0\leq t\leq 1\), where $\nabla_t$ is the weighted arithmetic mean.