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A Hilbert space $H$ is a real or complex vector space endowed with an inner product such that $H$ is a complete metric space when endowed with the norm induced by this inner product.

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When is Euclidean distortion finitely determined?

The problem is that you misdefined "Euclidean distortion". The infimum is over all maps into arbitrary Hilbert spaces, not just $\ell_2$. Of course, you can use only $\ell_2$ if the metric space is se …
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Representing an $L^2$-functional by a non-$L^2$-function on a dense subspace - Part II

Gro-Tsen's answer to your previous question provides a counterexample if you define $D$ to be all vectors in $\ell_2$ that are of the form $\sum_n a_n f_n$, where $f_n = e_n + e_{n+1}$, $(e_n)$ is the …
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Quasinilpotent , non-compact operators

On the Argyros-Haydon space every operator is a compact perturbation of a scalar multiple of the identity, and hence every quasinilpotent operator is compact.
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Compact images of nowhere dense closed convex sets in a Hilbert space

Your revised assumption is that the norm (rather than semi-norm after the revision) on $\ell_2$ given by sup-ing against vectors in $B$ is not equivalent to the usual norm on any finite codimensional …
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Characterisation of compact operators

No. Consider $H = (\sum_n \ell_2^{2^n})_2$ with the unit vector basis. In $\ell_2^{2^n}$, let $x_n$ be the sum of the unit vector basis. For the subspace take the closed linear span of $(x_n)$.
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Geometry of the Hilbert sphere

I think yes. Your balls are of the form $X\cap S(x,r)$ where $x\in X$ and $S(s,r)$ is the slice $\{y: \|y\|\le 1 \ \text{and} \ \langle x,y\rangle \ge r\}$ of the unit ball. Note that if $y$ is in …
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Are these ideals in rings of operators on Hilbert space unique?

No proper ideal satisfies your condition. Take the Hilbert space to be $ \ell_2\oplus \ell_2$ and define $f(x,y)=(o,x)$; $g(x,y)= (x,0)$.
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Set of invertible operators in B(H) is connected. Is it true? Is there a reference?

Kuiper's theorem gives the contractibility of the invertible operators in $B(H)$. Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper's_theorem Check out papers of Boris Mitjagin [Mitiagin] in the 1970 …
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"Frobenius-finite" linear operators on a Hilbert Space

Google hilbert schmidt operator.
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