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Orthogonality and characterizations of inner product spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

O.P. Kapoor  and
Jagadish Prasad
O.P. Kapoor
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Jagadish Prasad
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Using the notions of orthogonality in normed linear spaces such as isosceles, pythagorean, and Birkhoff-James orthogonality, in this paper we provide some new characterizations of inner product spaces besides giving simpler proofs of existing similar characterizations. In addition we prove that in a normed linear space pythagorean orthogonality is unique and that isosceles orthogonality is unique if and only if the space is strictly convex.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 1978 , pp. 403 - 416
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1979

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