A characterization of Gaussian law in Hilbert space.
A new proof of the Ficken criterion is given together with a comment concerning the known proofs and related results
In this paper we introduce a new type of orthogonality for real normed planes which coincides with usual orthogonality in the Euclidean situation. With the help of this type of orthogonality we derive several characterizations of the Euclidean plane among all normed planes, all of them yielding also characteristic properties of inner product spaces among real normed linear spaces of dimensions .
Let X be a normed space and the group of all linear surjective isometries of X that are finite-dimensional perturbations of the identity. We prove that if acts transitively on the unit sphere then X must be an inner product space.
We use Birkhoff-James' orthogonality in Banach spaces to provide new conditions for the converse of the classical Riesz representation theorem.
Generalizing a property of isosceles trapezoids in the real plane into real normed spaces, a couple of characterizations of inner product spaces (i.p.s) are obtained.
We study Banach spaces with directionally asymptotically controlled ellipsoid-approximations of the unit ball in finite-dimensional sections. Here these ellipsoids are the unique minimum volume ellipsoids, which contain the unit ball of the corresponding finite-dimensional subspace. The directional control here means that we evaluate the ellipsoids by means of a given functional of the dual space. The term 'asymptotical' refers to the fact that we take 'lim sup' over finite-dimensional subspaces. ...
Among normal linear spaces, the inner product spaces (i.p.s.) are particularly interesting. Many characterizations of i.p.s. among linear spaces are known using various functional equations. Three functional equations characterizations of i.p.s. are based on the Frchet condition, the Jordan and von Neumann identity and the Ptolemaic inequality respectively. The object of this paper is to solve generalizations of these functional equations.