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In the mathematical fields of linear algebra and functional analysis, the orthogonal complement of a subspace of a vector space equipped with a bilinear form is the set of all vectors in that are orthogonal to every vector in .
1. Orthogonal complement: If W is a linear subspace of an inner product space V, then denotes its orthogonal complement, that is, the linear space of the elements of V whose inner products with the elements of W are all zero. 2.
The orthogonal complement with respect to B of an ideal is again an ideal. [ 3 ] If a given Lie algebra g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} is a direct sum of its ideals I 1 ,..., I n , then the Killing form of g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} is the direct sum of the Killing forms of the individual summands.
The vector space of complex-valued class functions of a group has a natural -invariant inner product structure, described in the article Schur orthogonality relations.Maschke's theorem was originally proved for the case of representations over by constructing as the orthogonal complement of under this inner product.
It follows that x is in the kernel of A, if and only if x is orthogonal (or perpendicular) to each of the row vectors of A (since orthogonality is defined as having a dot product of 0). The row space, or coimage, of a matrix A is the span of the row vectors of A. By the above reasoning, the kernel of A is the orthogonal complement to the row
In mathematics, orthogonal functions belong to a function space that is a vector space equipped with a bilinear form. When the function space has an interval as the domain , the bilinear form may be the integral of the product of functions over the interval:
If a normal operator T on a finite-dimensional real [clarification needed] or complex Hilbert space (inner product space) H stabilizes a subspace V, then it also stabilizes its orthogonal complement V ⊥. (This statement is trivial in the case where T is self-adjoint.) Proof. Let P V be the orthogonal projection onto V.
which can be understood as "The orthogonal group O(n + 1) acts transitively on the unit sphere S n, and the stabilizer of a point (thought of as a unit vector) is the orthogonal group of the perpendicular complement, which is an orthogonal group one dimension lower."