Norm inequalities for elementary operators and other inner product type integral transformers with the spectra contained in the unit disc
If {At}t?? and {Bt}t?? are weakly*-measurable families of bounded Hilbert space operators such that transformers X ??? At*XAtd?(t) and X ??? Bt*XBtd?(t) on B(H) have their spectra contained in the unit disc, then for all bounded operators X ||?AX?B|| ? ||X-?? At* XBtd?(t)||, (1) where ?A def= s-limr?1(I + ??,n=1 r2n ??...??|At1...Atn|2d?n(t1,...,tn)-1/2 and ?B by analogy. If additionally ??,n=1 ??n |A*t1...A*tn|2d?n(t1,...,tn) and ?,n=1 ??n|B*t1...B*tn|2d?n(t1,...,tn) both represent bounded operators, then for all p,q,s > 1 such that 1/q + 1/s = 2/p and for all Schatten p trace class operators X ||?1-1q,A X ?1-1s,B|| ? ||?-1/q,A*(X-?? At* XBtd?(t))?-1/s,B*||p.(2) If at least one of those families consists of bounded commuting normal operators, then (1) holds for all unitarily invariant Q-norms. Applications to the shift operators are also given.