The Subspaces Spanned by an Orthonormal Sequence and Exhausting Sequences
lemmaAnalysislem:orthonormal-basis-exhausting-2026aThe 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.
In the setting of Real Hilbert Spaces: Standing Notation and Background, let be a real Hilbert space with inner product and norm , and let be an orthonormal sequence in . For let be the -tuple whose components are and let be its span. Then the following hold.
1. (The spanned subspaces)¶ For every , the set is a closed linear subspace of and is finite-dimensional as a vector space over , and . The orthogonal projection onto satisfies
2. (Exhausting sequences)¶ The sequence is an exhausting sequence for if and only if is an orthonormal basis of .
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