Additive Group (环)的纯量乘法(分配律、相容性、幺元) Left/Right -module 除环-Vector Space 域-Vector Space 或-Vector Space 范数(正定、正齐次半范数、三角不等式次可加) Normed Vector Space 度量(正定、对称、三角不等式次可加) with induced metric , therefore a metric space
① 内积(半双线性、共轭对称、正定) Inner Product Space 度量完备 Hilbert Space
② 度量完备 Banach Space 内积 Hilbert Space
Here we merely list, for future reference, several very classical geometries whose transformation groups are “continuous” rather than finite or discrete. We will not make the intuitively clear notion of continuous transformation group precise (this would involve defining the so-called topological groups or even Lie groups)
Finite-dimensional vector spaces
n-dimensional orthonormal vector space
Affine spaces are, informally speaking, finite-dimensional vector spaces “without a fixed origin”. This means that their transformation groups contain, besides , all parallel translations of the space (i.e., transformations of the space obtained by adding a fixed vector to all its elements).
Every normed vector space can be "uniquely extended" to a Banach space, which makes normed spaces intimately related to Banach spaces. Every Banach space is a normed space but converse is not true. For example, the set of the finite sequences of real numbers can be normed with the Euclidean norm, but it is not complete for this norm.
Of special interest are complete normed spaces, which are known as Banach spaces. Every normed vector space sits as a dense subspace inside some Banach space; this Banach space is essentially uniquely defined by and is called the completion of .
Two norms on the same vector space are called equivalent if they define the same topology. On a finite-dimensional vector space (but not infinite-dimensional vector spaces), all norms are equivalent (although the resulting metric spaces need not be the same) And since any Euclidean space is complete, we can thus conclude that all finite-dimensional normed vector spaces are Banach spaces.
The article on Hilbert spaces has several examples of inner product spaces, wherein the metric induced by the inner product yields a complete metric space. An example of an inner product space which induces an incomplete metric is the space , of continuous complex valued functions and on the interval . The inner product is
This space is not complete; consider for example, for the interval the sequence of continuous "step" functions, defined by:
This sequence is a Cauchy sequence for the norm induced by the preceding inner product, which does not converge to a continuous function.