%0 Journal Article %T Polar decomposition approach to Reid's inequality %A Lin C-S %J Journal of Inequalities and Applications %D 2002 %I Springer %X If and is Hermitian, then holds for all , which is known as Reid's inequality and was sharpened by Halmos in which was replaced by , the spectral radius of . In this article we present generalizations of Reid's and Halmos' inequalities via polar decomposition approach. Conditions on and are relaxed. Theorem regards Reid-type inequalities, and Theorem 2 contains Halmos-type inequalities. %K Polar decomposition %K Reid's inequality %K Spectral radius %U http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/7/186542