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Revision as of 17:12, 21 January 2008
Definition of complex (Hermitian) inner product
It's a matter of convention that the anti-linear term is the second one in the inner product:
with equality only if
The basic example is the form
NB if z = x + Iy, then z * z = (x − Iy)(x + Iy) = x2 + y2 = zz *
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