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The Subspaces Spanned by an Orthonormal Sequence and Exhausting Sequences

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Reason: The spans of the initial segments of an orthonormal sequence, their orthogonal projections, and the equivalence between being an exhausting sequence and the sequence being an orthonormal basis. · 1,367 chars · 7 deps · depth 17

The spans of the initial segments of an orthonormal sequence are finite-dimensional closed subspaces with an explicit orthogonal projection, and they form an exhausting sequence exactly when the orthonormal sequence is a basis.

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In the setting of Real Hilbert Spaces: Standing Notation and Background, let HH be a real Hilbert space with inner product ,\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle and norm |\cdot|, and let (ek)kN(e_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} be an orthonormal sequence in HH. For nNn\in\mathbb{N} let e(n)Hne^{(n)}\in H^{n} be the nn-tuple whose components are e1,,ene_{1},\dots,e_{n} and let Hn=span(e(n))H_{n}=\operatorname{span}(e^{(n)}) be its span. Then the following hold.

1. (The spanned subspaces) For every nNn\in\mathbb{N}, the set HnH_{n} is a closed linear subspace of HH and is finite-dimensional as a vector space over R\mathbb{R}, and HnHn+1H_{n}\subseteq H_{n+1}. The orthogonal projection PHnP_{H_{n}} onto HnH_{n} satisfies

PHnx=k=1nx,ekekfor every xH.P_{H_{n}}x=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\langle x,e_{k}\rangle e_{k}\qquad\text{for every }x\in H .

2. (Exhausting sequences) The sequence (Hn)nN(H_{n})_{n\in\mathbb{N}} is an exhausting sequence for HH if and only if (ek)kN(e_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} is an orthonormal basis of HH.

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