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Revision as of 16:34, 25 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:

 \langle u+v,w \rangle \equiv \langle u,w \rangle + \langle v,w \rangle

 \langle u,v+w \rangle  \equiv \langle u,v \rangle + \langle u,w \rangle

 \langle \alpha u,v \rangle  \equiv \alpha \langle u,v \rangle

 \langle u,\alpha v \rangle \equiv \alpha^* \langle u,v \rangle

 \langle u,v \rangle  \equiv \langle v,u \rangle ^*

 \langle u,u \rangle  = 0, with equality only if u \equiv 0

The basic example is the form

h(z,w) \equiv \sum z_i w^* _i

However, Griffiths uses a different convention with the complex conjugate on the first term: cf page 94. So, I will change mine to conform to his.



NB if z = x + Iy, then z * z = (xIy)(x + Iy) = x2 + y2 = zz *


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