Annihilator of a second-difference span in l2 ($x_k=e_k-2r{e}_{k+1}+e_{k+2},r>1$)

Let $M$ be the closed span of these vectors in the real l2 sequence space. A vector $\beta$ is orthogonal to $M$ exactly when ${\beta }_{k+2}-2r{\beta }_{k+1}+{\beta }_k=0$. The characteristic roots are $r\pm \sqrt{r^2-1}$; one grows geometrically and the other, $\rho$, lies in $(0,1)$. Square summability eliminates the growing solution, so $M^{\perp }=\mathrm{span}\{({\rho }^{j-1}{)}_{j\ge 1}\}$. Hence $M$ is a closed hyperplane, namely the kernel of the bounded functional $\alpha \mapsto {\sum }_j{\alpha }_j{\rho }^{j-1}$. This combines a recurrence with density by annihilators.