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In mathematics, an inner product space (or, rarely, a Hausdorff pre-Hilbert space [1] [2]) is a real vector space or a complex vector space with an operation called an inner product. The inner product of two vectors in the space is a scalar, often denoted with angle brackets such as in , .
The requirement that is a positive-definite inner product then says exactly that this matrix-valued function is a symmetric positive-definite matrix at . In terms of the tensor algebra , the Riemannian metric can be written in terms of the dual basis { d x 1 , … , d x n } {\displaystyle \{dx^{1},\ldots ,dx^{n}\}} of the cotangent bundle as
It is often called the inner product (or rarely the projection product) of Euclidean space, even though it is not the only inner product that can be defined on Euclidean space (see Inner product space for more). Algebraically, the dot product is the sum of the products of the corresponding entries of the two sequences of numbers.
In mathematics, the interior product (also known as interior derivative, interior multiplication, inner multiplication, inner derivative, insertion operator, or inner derivation) is a degree −1 (anti)derivation on the exterior algebra of differential forms on a smooth manifold.
The inner product is an example of a bilinear form, and it gives the vector space a geometric structure by allowing for the definition of length and angles. Formally, an inner product is a map ⋅ , ⋅ : V × V → F {\displaystyle \langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle :V\times V\to F}
In differential geometry, the first fundamental form is the inner product on the tangent space of a surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space which is induced canonically from the dot product of R 3. It permits the calculation of curvature and metric properties of a surface such as length and area in a manner consistent with the ambient space.
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where , is the inner product.Examples of inner products include the real and complex dot product; see the examples in inner product.Every inner product gives rise to a Euclidean norm, called the canonical or induced norm, where the norm of a vector is denoted and defined by ‖ ‖:= , , where , is always a non-negative real number (even if the inner product is complex-valued).