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Inner Product Space

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Thus far we have treated the theory of linear vector spaces . The vector spaces, however, were somewhat “structureless,” and so it will be desirable to introduce a concept of metric or measure into the linear vector spaces. We call a linear vector space where the inner product is defined an inner product space.

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Hotta, S. (2018). Inner Product Space. In: Mathematical Physical Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7671-8_11

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