Solution

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For normalized vector representatives in the same Hilbert space, the vector-norm convention is . Since physical pure states identify global phases, a phase-insensitive version is
The equality follows by choosing the phase to make the overlap real and nonnegative. This states an explicit pure-state norm distance convention; fidelity-based or trace-distance conventions use different numerical error parameters. We use the phase-insensitive convention for the universality claim below.

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