A2.3 B2.2
Part II, 2002
(i) State and prove the parallelogram law for Hilbert spaces.
Suppose that is a closed linear subspace of a Hilbert space and that . Show that is orthogonal to if and only if 0 is the nearest point to in .
(ii) Suppose that is a Hilbert space and that is a continuous linear functional on with . Show that there is a sequence of unit vectors in with real and .
Show that converges to a unit vector , and that .
Show that is orthogonal to , the null space of , and also that .
Show that , for all .