Every Linear Operator on a Space with a Finite Orthonormal Basis is Bounded

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Reason: Notation sweep: the orthonormal basis is now an n-tuple e in V^n referencing def:finite-tuple-power-2026a, with the orthonormal-basis reference pointing at def:orthonormal-basis-2026b. The initial segment is no longer introduced in the preamble because the statement does not quantify over it; the proof introduces it where it is used. Change of presentation only; the bound and the conclusion are unchanged. · 1,121 chars · 12 deps · depth 13

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Let $V$ together with $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle$ be a complex inner product space with induced norm $\lVert\cdot\rVert$ , which is a norm on $V$ by claim 2 of The Induced Norm is a Norm, and Induces a Metric. Let $n$ be a natural number, let $e\in V^{n}$ be an $n$ -tuple in $V$ that is an orthonormal basis of $V$ , with components $e_{k}$ , and let $T$ be a linear operator on $V$ .

Then $T$ is a bounded linear operator; more precisely, with the finite sum of real numbers

C=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\bigl\lVert T(e_{k})\bigr\rVert ,

one has $0\le C$ and

\lVert T(u)\rVert\le C\,\lVert u\rVert\qquad\text{for every }u\in V,

the order being that of the ordered field of real numbers.

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