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Muirhead’s majorization inequality was extended by Rado to the case of arbitrary permutation groups. We further generalize this inequality to compact groups and their linear representations over the reals. We characterize saturation of the inequality, and describe the saturation condition in detail for the case of actions on Hermitian operators.
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Schulman, L.J. Muirhead-Rado inequality for compact groups. Positivity 13, 559–574 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11117-008-2172-4
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