Randomized trial proves László's inequality in two-by-two matrices, suggesting insights into complex representations.
László conjectured an upper bound for the Frobenius norm of the degree-three standard polynomial evaluated at three real matrices. We prove the conjecture for arbitrary real two-by-two matrices and, more generally, establish the same inequality for arbitrary complex two-by-two matrices, without any normality assumption. The proof uses a coordinate model of the traceless subspace in which the commutator is represented by a modified cross product and the alternating polynomial by a determinant. This yields the sharp constant \(3/2\) and a complete classification of the equality cases. We also identify a scalar Casimir criterion for three-dimensional Lie subalgebras isomorphic to \(sl_2(C)\). It gives the constant \(3/n\) whenever the Casimir operator is scalar on \(C^n\), in particular for irreducible and isotypic realizations. This constant is sharp on the isotypic class. As consequences, the inequality holds with constant \(3/2\) for unitary \(su(2)\)-representations and complexified orthogonal \(so(3)\)-representations, and with the sharp constant \(1\) for real skew-symmetric three-by-three matrices.
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