Hello, I'm a little bit confused regarding Hermitian Adjoint. I want to show that <x,y> = A(x,y) is an inner product where the function A : V*V --> V be defined as A(x,y) = x^T*A_hat*y. A_hat = [2 1 0; 1 4 1; 0 1 4].
How would i go about showing that <x,y> = A(x,y) is an inner product...