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Department of Mathematics
MATH4010 Functional Analysis
Homework 6
Notice:
• All the assignments must be submitted before the deadline.
• Each assignment should include your name and student ID number.
1. Prove that in a complex (resp. real) inner product space, x ⊥ y if and only if
kx + λyk = kx − λyk
for all scalars λ ∈ C (resp. R).
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