Abstract
An inner product in a real linear space E is a bilinear function (x,y) having the following properties:
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Symmetry: (x,y) = (y, x).
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Positive defmiteness : (x, x) ≧ 0 and (x, x) = 0 only for the vector x = 0.
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Greub, W.H. (1963). Inner product spaces. In: Linear Algebra. Die Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01545-2_10
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