Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analysis-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/b/5/b/iv/solution

For a fixed second argument the norm formula makes continuous in its first argument. Rational homogeneity therefore extends to real homogeneity by rational approximation; additivity and then give full complex linearity in that argument.
The real pairing is symmetric, and . Hence , giving conjugate linearity in the second argument. Finally and , because . Therefore
which is positive for . This proves is a complex inner product inducing exactly the original norm. The assumed Banach completeness makes the resulting inner product space Hilbert. This is the Jordan-von Neumann theorem.

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