Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Inner Product Spaces - 5.1 Definition of an Inner Product Space - Problems - Page 351: 24

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We have vector space $R^2$. Consider $R^2 \times R^2 \rightarrow R$ defined as $=v_1w_1-v_2w_2$ for all vectors $v=(v_1,v_2)\\ w=(w_1,w_2)$ Consider set $S=v \in R^2: v \ne 0, (v,v)=0$ with $v=(v_1,v_2) \in S$ we have: $=(v_1)^2-(v_2)^2 \lt 0 \\ \rightarrow (v_1)^2\lt (v_2)^2\\ \rightarrow |v_1| \lt |v_2|$ We can notice that $v \in S, v_1 \ne 0$ and $v=(v_1,v_2) \in R^2$, thus: $S=\{(v_1,v_2) \in R^2: |v_1| \lt |v_2|,v_1 \ne 0 \}$
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