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Is there a use for a Hilbert space that uses a different norm than the one induced by the inner product?

$l_1$ minimization / compressed sensing comes to mind. Does anyone have any concrete examples? Or is such a construct completely useless?
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Is there a coalgebraic characterisation of the hyperfinite II_1 factor?

Peter Freyd showed that the real interval [0, 1] is a final coalgebra for a functor on sets equipped with two points, which sends such a set to the 'wedge' of two copies of itself, identifying the ...
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Neglect of Compact Quantum Metric Spaces [closed]

Does anyone have an opinion on Rieffel's theory of compact quantum metric spaces? To me it seems to be a very interesting new area of mathematics. It shows how to generalise complicated geometric ...
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opposite Banach space

I heard this from Haskell Rosenthal many years ago. If V is a complex vector space, say the opposite of V is the complex vector space with the same elements, the same operations except switch scalar ...
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Making an l_2 distance out of l_1 distance

If we think of the l1 distance as a grid-distance between points, then we can think of l2 distance as what we get when we "shortcut" the grid by going "inside" a cell. Making the grid finer doesn't ...
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Hilbert Space as direct sum of subspaces with cyclic vectors

Ok,so this should be easy, however I havent taken functional analysis for a while. But given a compact self-adjoint operator on a hilbert space H(over the complex numbers), we define v to be a cyclic ...
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Convergence of Affine Transformations

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me to any sources regarding the convergence of iterated affine transformation, i.e. sequences where {a_n} is a set of affine transforms and the sequence: ...
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Range of a Certain Linear Operator

Consider the following hermitian form on the sobolev space H^1(I), of an interval I: g(u,v):= \int_I (du/dt dv/dt - \rho(t) u v)dt, where \rho is a nice bounded function on I. Riesz representation ...

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