Normed vector space/K/Introduction/Section

Due to fact, the norm associated to an inner product is a norm in the sense of the following definition. In particular, a vector space with an inner product is a normed vector space.


Let be a -vector space. A mapping

is called norm, if the following properties hold.

  1. We have for all .
  2. We have if and only if .
  3. For and , we have
  4. For , we have


A -vector space is called a normed vector space if a norm

is defined on it.

On a euclidean vector space, the norm given via the the inner product is also called the euclidean norm. For , endowed with the standard inner product, we have


In , taking

a norm is defined, which is called the maximum norm.

The sum metric is also called the taxicab-metric. The green line represents the euclidean distance, the other paths represent the sum distance.


In , taking

defines a norm, which is called the sum norm.

For a vector , , in a normed vector space , the vector is called the corresponding normalized. Such a normalized vector has norm . Passing to the normalized vector is also called normalization.