• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.789-804
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• 2022

Striking result of Vybíral [51] says that Schur product of positive matrices is bounded below by the size of the matrix and the row sums of Schur product. Vybíral used this result to prove the Novak's conjecture. In this paper, we define Schur product of matrices over arbitrary C^*-algebras and derive the results of Schur and Vybíral. As an application, we state C^*-algebraic version of Novak's conjecture and solve it for commutative unital C^*-algebras. We formulate Pólya-Szegő-Rudin question for the C^*-algebraic Schur product of positive matrices.