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Inner Products in Algebraic Structures

This document contains 6 problems related to inner products on vector spaces. It asks the reader to: 1) Show that a defined operation is an inner product on a space of continuous functions from R to C. 2) Show that a defined operation is an inner product on the space of n x n complex matrices. 3) Prove the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for an inner product space. 4) Show that a norm defined using an inner product defines a norm on the vector space. 5) Prove the parallelogram law is satisfied by a norm defined using an inner product. 6) Derive the polarization identity for a complex vector space with an inner product.

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Inner Products in Algebraic Structures

This document contains 6 problems related to inner products on vector spaces. It asks the reader to: 1) Show that a defined operation is an inner product on a space of continuous functions from R to C. 2) Show that a defined operation is an inner product on the space of n x n complex matrices. 3) Prove the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for an inner product space. 4) Show that a norm defined using an inner product defines a norm on the vector space. 5) Prove the parallelogram law is satisfied by a norm defined using an inner product. 6) Derive the polarization identity for a complex vector space with an inner product.

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Tutorial 10

SC-116 Algebraic Structures Autumn 2015


(Inner Products)

(1) RLet V be the space of continuous functiontion from R to C. Show that hf | gi =


f (x)g(x)dx defines an inner product on V .
(2) Show that hA | Bi = Tr(A B) is an inner product on the space of n n complex
matrices.
(3) Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Let V is an inner product space with k k R the norm derived from the inner
product then show that
|hx | yi| kxkkyk
(4) Let V be an inner product space, then show that kxk = hx | xi is a defines a norm
on V
(5) Parallelogram law
Let V be a real or complex vector space with an inner product. Show that the norm
defined by the inner product satisfies the parallelogram law
kx + yk2 + kx yk2 = 2kxk2 + 2kyk2
(6) Polarization identity
Show that if V is a complex vector space equipped with an inner product then the
following identity holds
4

hx | yi =

1X n
i kx + in yk2
4 n=1

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