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Bilinearity and Symmetry of the Dot Product on Rn\mathbb{R}^n

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Reason: Initial publication: symmetry, additivity, differences and homogeneity of the dot product on R^n in each argument; the corpus previously had only the definition of the dot product.

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Let n1n\ge1 be a natural number and let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers. Regard Euclidean space Rn\mathbb{R}^n as a real vector space by Euclidean Space Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a Real Vector Space, with the sum z+zz+z' of points and the scalar multiple μz\mu z, and write zzz-z' and zzz\cdot z' for the difference and the dot product.

Then for all z,z,wRnz,z',w\in\mathbb{R}^n and every μR\mu\in\mathbb{R} the following hold.

1. (Symmetry)

zw=wz.z\cdot w=w\cdot z .

2. (Additivity in the first argument)

(z+z)w=zw+zw.(z+z')\cdot w=z\cdot w+z'\cdot w .

3. (Differences in the first argument)

(zz)w=zwzw.(z-z')\cdot w=z\cdot w-z'\cdot w .

4. (Homogeneity in the first argument)

(μz)w=μ(zw).(\mu z)\cdot w=\mu\,(z\cdot w).

5. (Second argument)

w(z+z)=wz+wz,w(zz)=wzwz,w(μz)=μ(wz).w\cdot(z+z')=w\cdot z+w\cdot z',\qquad w\cdot(z-z')=w\cdot z-w\cdot z',\qquad w\cdot(\mu z)=\mu\,(w\cdot z).
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