Inner product space

Parallelogram law

A normed vector space over or is induced by a unique inner product iff it satisfies the parallelogram law #m/thm/anal/vec

for all , where the unique inner product is given by the polarization identity

Further properties

1. The parallelogram law is equivalent to the inequality by , .

Corollaries

• forms an inner product space iff

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