Hilbert spaces

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Hilbert spaces are complete inner product spaces that provide the fundamental framework for modern functional analysis and many areas of mathematical physics.

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Fock space 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf complete metric space
inner product space
mathematical structure
vector space
hasConcept bounded linear operator
closed subspace
compact operator
orthogonal projection
orthonormal basis
self-adjoint operator
unitary operator
hasDefinition a complete inner product space
hasExample Hardy space H^2 on the unit disk
Sobolev space H^1 with appropriate inner product
finite-dimensional Euclidean space R^n with standard inner product
finite-dimensional complex space C^n with standard inner product
function space L^2 of square-integrable functions
sequence space l^2 of square-summable sequences
hasOperation inner product conjugate symmetric in complex case
inner product linear in first argument (in complex case, conjugate-linear in second)
inner product positive definite
inner product symmetric in real case
hasProperty Bessel inequality holds for orthonormal systems
Cauchy sequences converge in the norm
Parseval identity holds for complete orthonormal systems
Pythagorean theorem generalizes to orthogonal vectors
Riesz representation theorem holds for continuous linear functionals
completeness with respect to the norm induced by the inner product
every closed subspace has an orthogonal complement
every vector has a unique decomposition into components in a closed subspace and its orthogonal complement
is a Banach space
isometries preserve inner product and norm in the Hilbert space
parallelogram law holds for the norm
projection theorem holds for closed convex subsets
separable if it has a countable dense subset
hasStructure inner product
scalar multiplication
vector addition
induces norm via the inner product
isA Banach space with norm from an inner product
mayBe complex
real
namedAfter David Hilbert
usedIn control theory
functional analysis
harmonic analysis
partial differential equations
quantum field theory
quantum mechanics
signal processing

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Cameron–Martin theorem involves Hilbert spaces
David Hilbert notableWork Hilbert spaces
this entity surface form: Hilbert space
von Neumann algebras relatedTo Hilbert spaces
subject surface form: von Neumann algebra
this entity surface form: Hilbert space
Fourier analysis usesConcept Hilbert spaces
quantum field theory usesConcept Hilbert spaces
this entity surface form: Fock space