Positively Curved Bilinear Forms
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Bilinear Forms
The geometry of Rn is controlled algebraically by the dot product. We will abstract the dot product on Rn to a bilinear form on a vector space and study algebraic and geometric notions related to bilinear forms (especially the concept of orthogonality in all its manifestations: orthogonal vectors, orthogonal subspaces, and orthogonal bases). Section 1 defines a bilinear form on a vector space a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0002-9939
DOI: 10.2307/2045908