A convex treatment of numerical radius inequalities

Abstract: In this article, we prove an inner product inequality for Hilbert space operators. This inequality, then, is utilized to present a general numerical radius inequality using convex functions. Applications of the new results include obtaining new forms that generalize and extend some well known results in the literature, with an application to the newly defined generalized numerical radius. We emphasize that the approach followed in this article is different from the approaches used in the literature to obtain the refined versions.