Does Pythagorean law holds in Hilbert space or plane?

1.2k Views Asked by At

Does Pythagorean law holds in Hilbert space or plane?

I know that Pythagorean law holds in Euclidean plane while Hilbert space is a generalisation of Euclidean space.

I know that finite orthonormal set $S$ in a hilbert space $H$, then Pythagorean law holds.

Can someone explain it elaborately whether Pythagorean law holds in Hilbert plane.

1

There are 1 best solutions below

11
On BEST ANSWER

Let $S= \{x_1, \ldots, x_n\}$ be a finite orthogonal set in an inner product space. We have $$\left\|\sum_{i=1}^n x_i\right\|^2 = \left\langle \sum_{i=1}^n x_i, \sum_{j=1}^n x_j\right\rangle = \sum_{i=1}^n \sum_{j=1}^n \langle x_i, x_j\rangle = \sum_{i=1}^n \sum_{j=1}^n \|x_i\|^2\delta_{ij} = \sum_{i=1}^n \|x_i\|^2$$ which is the Pythagorean identity.