A gauge transformation is
Because partial derivatives commute, the added contribution to is
so the electromagnetic field tensor is gauge invariant.
Define
Since and ,
The identity
follows directly from . Its spatial and mixed components are
For the other two equations define the four-current
Then gives
and gives
This is the Covariant Maxwell equation with the minus-plus-plus-plus metric.
Using
one finds
This is the electromagnetic energy density.
For a null vector, the trace term in vanishes. Put
Antisymmetry gives . A vector orthogonal to a null vector has nonnegative Minkowski norm, so
Explicitly, in a frame with ,
Hence the null energy condition for the electromagnetic field is strict whenever the contraction is nonzero:
The characteristic polynomial is
To prove triangularizability, use induction on . The result is immediate for . Over , has a root , so has an eigenvector . Extend it to a basis. In this basis,
By induction, a change among the remaining basis vectors makes upper triangular. Thus the triangularization over an algebraically closed field gives
The minimal polynomial is the monic polynomial of least degree satisfying . To establish existence without quoting the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, let be an upper-triangular matrix similar to , with diagonal entries , and put
Then
The factors commute, so applying all of them successively lowers the invariant flag to zero:
Similarity gives the same polynomial identity for . Hence a nonzero monic annihilating polynomial of degree exists, and a least-degree one exists.
If and were two monic annihilating polynomials of the same least degree, then would be an annihilating polynomial of smaller degree unless it were zero. Thus the minimal polynomial is unique, and the minimal polynomial bound from a triangular invariant flag gives
Integer row and column operations give
Thus the Smith normal form is
The two relation vectors are the columns of the displayed matrix, so its cokernel is the presented module. Consequently
Proceed by induction on . Over , has an eigenvector , say . The normal operator satisfies the norm equality from part (c), so
Thus . Part (a) now shows that is invariant under both and . The restriction of to is normal. By induction it has an orthonormal eigenbasis, and adjoining the normalized vector proves the finite-dimensional spectral theorem for normal operators.
Hence
Fix . The map is a linear functional, so the finite-dimensional Riesz representation theorem gives a unique vector such that
For scalars ,
Uniqueness gives
so is linear.
For , apply this result to
It produces a unique linear map satisfying
which proves existence and uniqueness of the adjoint.
For , the independent vectors lie in the coordinate subspace supported on
which has dimension . Hence , and the stated form of Hall marriage theorem gives an injection with .
Let be the matrix whose th column is . Its column rank is . By equality of row and column rank, it has linearly independent rows. Let be their indices. The submatrix is invertible, so its columns are independent. Those columns are exactly the nonzero coordinates of , and therefore these truncated vectors are linearly independent.
Expanding gives a permutation for which
Thus . Finally, order the coordinates with first. The matrix whose columns are the together with the for is block triangular, with diagonal blocks and an identity matrix. Its determinant is nonzero. Consequently
is a basis of . This is the simultaneous basis exchange from a nonzero minor.
Let be free with basis . Given a surjection and a map , choose satisfying . There is a unique linear map with , and on every basis vector
Thus , proving that free modules are projective.
The space of test functions is
A sequence converges to in when all supports lie eventually in one compact set and
for every multi-index . A distribution is a linear functional such that, for every compact , there are and with
whenever . Convergence in is pointwise convergence on test functions.
Continuity plainly implies sequential continuity. Conversely, suppose the linear form is sequentially continuous but the displayed estimate fails for some compact . For every , choose supported in such that
Then in , while , a contradiction. Hence the seminorm estimate holds on every compact set and .
For a translation vector and a multi-index , define
These definitions extend ordinary translation and differentiation to distributions.
If for every , differentiating its pairing at gives . Conversely, if , then for every test function
The pairing is constant in , hence . This proves both directions of translation invariance and vanishing distributional derivative.
Finally, the distributional differentiation obeys the linear chain rule under the linear coordinates and . Thus
and likewise
as distributions. Adding the two identities gives
the one-dimensional wave equation; this is the low-regularity form of the travelling waves in the D'Alembert formula.
A complex representation of is a complex vector space together with a homomorphism
It is faithful when , equivalently when is injective. Every finite group has a faithful complex representation: in the regular representation, permutes the basis by
and a group element fixing every basis vector must be the identity.
If is conjugate to , then is similar to . Thus the two matrices have the same spectrum, while an eigenvalue of gives the eigenvalue of . Hence
Now take a -cycle . It is conjugate to for every . Faithfulness makes have order , so its spectrum contains a nontrivial th root of unity . The preceding implication puts all the distinct values
in the spectrum. Therefore . This is the spectrum orbit bound for a faithful symmetric-group representation.
Finally let be the group of all permutations of . It has no faithful finite-dimensional complex representation. For every , contains a subgroup generated by disjoint transpositions. In a -dimensional complex representation, commuting involutions are simultaneously diagonalizable and hence map into the group of diagonal sign matrices, which has order . A faithful restriction would require for every , an impossibility.
The closest point theorem in a Hilbert space states that every nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space has a unique point nearest to any given .
Let and choose with . The parallelogram identity and convexity give
so is Cauchy. Completeness and closedness give a limit with . If were both minimizers, the same identity with their midpoint would force .
Apply the theorem to a closed subspace . For , let be closest and put . For every , minimality of at for real and imaginary gives . Hence
The intersection is zero, so .
If is a shift with orthonormal basis , it is an isometry,
Conversely, suppose these three properties hold. Choose a unit vector spanning and set . Isometry makes this sequence orthonormal. Iterating the orthogonal decomposition
gives
A vector orthogonal to every lies in every and is therefore zero. Thus is an orthonormal basis and , so is a shift. This is the wandering-vector characterization of a unilateral shift.
If and , then
but strict positivity of and the nonzero vector make the left side positive. Thus the two sets cannot both be nonempty.
Conversely, suppose . The subspace is disjoint from the compact simplex
Strict separation gives a vector that vanishes on and is positive on all of . The first property says ; testing the vertices of shows every . After normalization , this gives . This is Stiemke theorem in normalized form. Therefore
Let be the state-by-asset matrix of discounted gains and identify with its state vector. Fix . If , , and , then
belongs to . The assumption and passage to the limit imply for every nonnegative .
The finite-state superhedging alternative now gives with
This residual cannot vanish identically, since then every would have . Hence it is strictly positive in at least one state, which has positive physical probability. This is the required inequality.
The same mixing argument with a fixed shows that
for every in , including boundary vectors. By the finite-state superhedging alternative, there is such that
which is the asserted almost-sure inequality. No strict residual is required here.
Let be independent Rademacher signs. For the set of evaluation vectors
the empirical Rademacher complexity is
For an independent sample ,
Condition on the sample. The set of vectors
has at most distinct members, each with Euclidean norm at most . The Massart finite-class lemma, the Sauer-Shelah growth bound, and give
Taking expectations and substituting this into part (i) yields
Set . The off-diagonal Hermiticity identity holds automatically, while
must be real. Thus
is necessary and sufficient. For , put . Since the two normalized spanning vectors are linearly independent, .
The normalized eigenvectors and eigenvalues are
Direct application of verifies the eigenvalue equations. Their unnormalized inner product is
so the distinct eigenvectors are orthogonal, as required for a Hermitian operator. If , and every vector is an eigenvector.