We propose a family of new upper and lower bounds for the trace of the matrix product AB when A, or B is symmetric. Those bounds depend on a scalar parameter, and both converge monotonically to tr(AB) when this parameter vanishes, thus providing arbitrary close approximations. Even large values of the parameter yield very good bounds.
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Jean B. Lasserre (1997) studied this question.
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