Download or read book Norm Derivatives and Characterizations of Inner Product Spaces written by Claudi Alsina and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction. 1.1. Historical notes. 1.2. Normed linear spaces. 1.3. Strictly convex normed linear spaces. 1.4. Inner product spaces. 1.5. Orthogonalities in normed linear spaces -- 2. Norm derivatives. 2.1. Norm derivatives : Definition and basic properties. 2.2. Orthogonality relations based on norm derivatives. 2.3. p'[symbol]-orthogonal transformations. 2.4. On the equivalence of two norm derivatives. 2.5. Norm derivatives and projections in normed linear spaces. 2.6. Norm derivatives and Lagrange's identity in normed linear spaces. 2.7. On some extensions of the norm derivatives. 2.8. p-orthogonal additivity -- 3. Norm derivatives and heights. 3.1. Definition and basic properties. 3.2. Characterizations of inner product spaces involving geometrical properties of a height in a triangle. 3.3. Height functions and classical orthogonalities. 3.4. A new orthogonality relation. 3.5. Orthocenters. 3.6. A characterization of inner product spaces involving an isosceles trapezoid property. 3.7. Functional equations of the height transform -- 4. Perpendicular bisectors in Normed spaces. 4.1. Definitions and basic properties. 4.2. A new orthogonality relation. 4.3. Relations between perpendicular bisectors and classical orthogonalities. 4.4. On the radius of the circumscribed circumference of a triangle. 4.5. Circumcenters in a triangle. 4.6. Euler line in real normed space. 4.7. Functional equation of the perpendicular bisector transform -- 5. Bisectrices in real Normed spaces. 5.1. Bisectrices in real normed spaces. 5.2. A new orthogonality relation. 5.3. Functional equation of the bisectrix transform. 5.4. Generalized bisectrices in strictly convex real normed spaces. 5.5. Incenters and generalized bisectrices -- 6. Areas of triangles in Normed spaces. 6.1. Definition of four areas of triangles. 6.2. Classical properties of the areas and characterizations of inner product spaces. 6.3. Equalities between different area functions. 6.4. The area orthogonality.