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Inner Product Space

Let V be the vector space over the field F where F is either field of real numbers or field of complex number. An inner product space on V is a function from VχV into F which assigns to each ordered pairs of vectors α,β in V by a scalar (α,β) such that

1-( α, β) = (β,ᾱ)
2-(a α +b β,γ)=a(α,γ)+b(β,γ)
3-( α, α) ≥0 and (α, α)=0 α=0 , a,bF and α,β,γV

Also the vector space V is said to be an inner product space with respect to inner product defined on it.

Note-
(1)- If F is the field of real numbers then the inner product space is called eculidean space and if F is the field of complex numbers then it is called an unitary space.
(2)-The property first in inner product space is called Conjugate Symmetry for F=C and is called real symmetry for F=R.
(3)-The property second in the definition of inner product space is called linearity.
(4)-The property (3) is called non-negativity.
(5)- The inner product space is also called as dot-product or scalar product.

    Norm of a vector space:-

Let V be an inner product space if αV then the norm or length of α written as ||α||  and is defined as the positive square root of (α,α) i.e.               ||α||=√(α,α)
If ||α||=1 then α is called a limit vector.

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