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In mathematics, the semi-inner-product is a generalization of inner products formulated by Günter Lumer for the purpose of extending Hilbert space type arguments to Banach spaces in functional analysis. Fundamental properties were later explored by Giles.

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Definition

The definition presented here is different from that of the "semi-inner product" in standard functional analysis textbooks, where a "semi-inner product" satisfies all the properties of inner products (including conjugate symmetry) except that it is not required to be strictly positive.

A semi-inner-product for a linear vector space V over the field C of complex numbers is a function from V × V to C , usually denoted by [ ⋅ , ⋅ ] , such that

  1. [ f + g , h ] = [ f , h ] + [ g , h ] ∀ f , g , h ∈ V ,
  2. [ α f , g ] = α [ f , g ] ∀ α ∈ C ,   ∀ f , g ∈ V ,
  3. [ f , α g ] = α ¯ [ f , g ] ∀ α ∈ C ,   ∀ f , g ∈ V ,
  4. [ f , f ] ≥ 0  and  [ f , f ] = 0  if and only if  f = 0 ,
  5. | [ f , g ] | ≤ [ f , f ] 1 / 2 [ g , g ] 1 / 2 ∀ f , g ∈ V .

Difference from inner products

A semi-inner-product is different from inner products in that it is in general not conjugate symmetric, i.e.,

generally. This is equivalent to saying that

In other words, semi-inner-products are generally nonlinear about its second variable.

Semi-inner-products for Banach spaces

  • If [ ⋅ , ⋅ ] is a semi-inner-product for a linear vector space V then

    • defines a norm on V .

  • Conversely, if V is a normed vector space with the norm ∥ ⋅ ∥ then there always exists (maynot be unique) a semi-inner-product on V that is consistent with the norm on V in the sense that

    • Examples

  • The Euclidean space C n with the ℓ p norm ( 1 ≤ p < + ∞ )

    • has the consistent semi-inner-product:

    where

  • In general, the space L p ( Ω , d μ ) of p -integrable functions on a measure space ( Ω , μ ) , where 1 ≤ p < + ∞ , with the norm

    • possesses the consistent semi-inner-product:

    Applications

    1. Following the idea of Lumer, semi-inner-products were widely applied to study bounded linear operators on Banach spaces.
    2. In 2007, Der and Lee applied semi-inner-products to develop large margin classification in Banach spaces.
    3. Recently, semi-inner-products have been used as the main tool in establishing the concept of reproducing kernel Banach spaces for machine learning.
    4. Semi-inner-products can also be used to establish the theory of frames, Riesz bases for Banach spaces.

    References

    Semi-inner-product Wikipedia
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