Roman Drnov\v sek
Bounds for the spectral radius of positive operators

Comment.Math.Univ.Carolinae 41,3 (2000) 459-467.

Abstract:Let $f$ be a non-zero positive vector of a Banach lattice $L$, and let $T$ be a positive linear operator on $L$ with the spectral radius $r(T)$. We find some groups of assumptions on $L$, $T$ and $f$ under which the inequalities $$ \sup \{c \geq 0 : T f \geq c f\} \leq r(T) \leq \inf \{c \geq 0 : T f \leq c f\} $$ hold. An application of our results gives simple upper and lower bounds for the spectral radius of a product of positive operators in terms of positive eigenvectors corresponding to the spectral radii of given operators. We thus extend the matrix result obtained by Johnson and Bru which was the motivation for this paper.

Keywords: Banach lattices, positive operators, spectral radius
AMS Subject Classification: 46B42, 47B65, 47A10

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