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Title of object: Hilbert space
Canonical Name: HilbertSpace
Type: Definition

Created on: 2002-02-13 12:21:19
Modified on: 2002-08-01 11:13:22

Creator: Evandar
Modifier: Evandar
Author: Evandar

Classification: msc:46C05

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A \emph{Hilbert space} is an inner product space $(X,\langle,\rangle)$ which is \PMlinkid{complete}{603} under the induced norm.
Some authors require $X$ to be infinite dimensional for it to be called a Hilbert space.