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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2017
    • (edited Jan 18th 2017)

    To make sense of this in my mind as a general concept, I have written semidefinite element. This gives a general context in which to define ‘positive definite’, ‘negative semidefinite’, ‘indefinite’ etc.

    (This seems the safest page title, as the least likely to have any conflicts. I've also put in a lot of redirects, but possibly some of these will have to go elsewhere; definite seems the most dangerous.)

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2017

    Neat. It’s not quite clear to me how you’re getting the case of bilinear forms: are you regarding them as function sets as in the paragraph two above?

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2017

    No, and the definitions aren't spelt out on semidefinite element, since they're spelt out at inner product space, so I just referenced that.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeJan 18th 2017

    I don’t understand. The page inner product space defines words like “semidefinite” directly. But the page semidefinite element defines those same words in terms of a structure ,#,0\le, \#, 0. What I seek is a definition of the structure ,#,0\le,\#,0 that causes the definitions of “semidefinite” etc. given at semidefinite element to coincide with those given at inner product space.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJan 18th 2017
    • (edited Jan 18th 2017)

    Symmetric bilinear forms (or more generally conjugate-symmetric sesquilinear forms) form an abelian group under addition (this much treats them as forming [a subset of] a function set), so if you know what ‘semidefinite’ and ‘nonsingular’ (aka ‘nondegenerate’) mean, then you know what \leq, ##, and 00 are. Perhaps I should spell that out more.

    ETA: That is the reason for the comment ‘The obvious additive group structure is compatible (which explains what \leq, ##, and 00 mean)’.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJan 18th 2017

    I made a mistake in #1, saying that indefinite was the most dangerous redirect; I forgot that I had been so bold as to include definite! (I now fixed #1.)

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2017

    Spelling it out would help me.