Consider a unit norm $\|V\|_2=1$ and a symmetric matrix $A$.
I wish to prove that $\|A^tv\|_2 \leq \|Av\|_2^t$ for every $0<t<1$.
My belief is that this is true is motivated by empirical findings, using the following script (MATLAB):
t=0.1;
for ind=1:100000
A=randn(5);A=A+A';
v=randn(5,1); v=v/norm(v);
if norm(A^t*v)> norm(A*v)^t
sprintf('Claim does not hold')
break
end
end
sprintf('Claim holds')
Thanks a lot!