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A characterisation of Hilbert spaces via orthogonality and proximinality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
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In this paper we adopt the notion of orthogonality in Banach spaces introduced by the author in [6]. There, the author showed that in any two-dimensional subspace F of E, every nonzero element admits at most one orthogonal direction. The problem of existence of such orthogonal direction was not addressed before. Our main purpose in this paper is the investigation of this problem in the case where E is a real Banach space. As a result we obtain a characterisation of Hilbert spaces stating that, if in every two-dimensional subspace F of E every nonzero element admits an orthogonal direction, then E is isometric to a Hilbert space. We conclude by presenting some open problems.
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- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 107 - 111
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