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Complex case

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what about the complex case?

thats described in Banach_space, under the heading Relationship to Hilbert spaces

The complex case is now described and sourced in the introduction. Brews ohare (talk) 16:03, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sesquilinearity

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I think that mentioning the sesquilinear forms is a bit misleading. The sesquilinear form is defined to be linear in the second variable (and conjugate-linear in the first), but the euations in section Complex numbers seem to be true for an inner product that is linear in the first variable (and conjugate-linear in the second one).

89.135.16.141 (talk) 06:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree

Sesquilinearity can be defined with either convention, but it does seem to be potentially confusing that the first section uses the opposite convention (edited). Adam Marsh (talk) 19:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

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In my opinion the referencing style - putting the equation/theorem in quotes before the title - is weird. I've never seen this style before. I think page numbers obviate equation/theorem numbers.

Snittle timberry (talk) 01:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why "Polarization"?

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Why "polarization"? It "polarizes" what? Or what is "polarizing" in this sense? - Nabla (talk) 17:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]