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ajayguhan said:So we can say that hilbert space is a a inner product vector space which can be of finite or infinite dimension.if it's finite we can call it as eucledian space...?
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Every vector space where inner product is defined is a hilbert space...is it True ?
No; you need to have a specific relationship between the inner-product and the metric:
the inner-product needs to generate the norm ( and so generate the metric which is itself
generated by the norm.). The space has to be complete under this norm, altho a metric space is,
in a sense, as good as a complete metric space, since it has a completion (tho it is a nice exercise to show that the completion preserves the fact that the metric is generated by the inner-product.)
This happens iff the inner-product satisfies the parallelogram law;
out of all $$L^p$$ and $$l^p$$ spaces, only p=2 gives you a Hilbert space.
See, e.g:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/294544/parallelogram-law-valid-in-banach-spaces
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