Definition:Inner Product/Also defined as
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Also defined as
Let $V$ be a vector space over a field $\GF$ that is a subfield of $\R$ or $\C$.
Let $\innerprod \cdot \cdot: V \times V \to \GF$ be an inner product on $\GF$.
Some texts define an inner product only for vector spaces over $\R$ or $\C$.
This ensures that for all $v \in V$, the inner product norm:
- $\norm v = \sqrt {\innerprod v v}$
is a scalar.
$\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ prefers the more general definition, and lists additional requirement on $\GF$ in theorems where it is needed, such as the Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization theorem.
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