1 Dot product of R The inner product or dot product of R is a function 〈 , 〉 defined by 〈u,v〉 = a1b1 + a2b2 + · · ·+ anbn for u = [a1, a2, . . . , an] , v = [b1, b2, . . . , bn] ∈ R. The inner product 〈 , 〉 satisfies the following properties: (1) Linearity: 〈au + bv,w〉 = a〈u,w〉+ b〈v,w〉. (2) Symmetric Property: 〈u,v〉 = 〈v,u〉. (3) Positive Definite Property: For any u ∈ V , 〈u,u〉 ≥ 0; and 〈u,u〉 =...