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The Quadratic Form of a Real Square Matrix is Bounded on the Closed Unit Ball

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Reason: New lemma: the absolute values of the quadratic form of a real square matrix on the closed unit ball form a nonempty set bounded above by the sum of the absolute values of the entries, hence have a least upper bound. This makes the norm of a symmetric matrix well defined without appealing to compactness.

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Let nn be a natural number with 1n1\le n, let [n][n] be the initial segment determined by nn, and let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers with the order \le of its ordered field structure and the absolute value |\cdot|. Let AA be a real n×nn\times n matrix, with entries AijA_{ij}.

On Euclidean space Rn\mathbb{R}^n, a real vector space by Euclidean Space Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a Real Vector Space, write ξζ\xi\cdot\zeta for the dot product, ξ\lVert\xi\rVert for the Euclidean norm, and AξA\xi for the matrix-vector product. All sums below are the finite sums of the field R\mathbb{R}.

Then the set

QA={ξ(Aξ) : ξRn, ξ1}Q_A=\bigl\{\,|\xi\cdot(A\xi)|\ :\ \xi\in\mathbb{R}^n,\ \lVert\xi\rVert\le1\,\bigr\}

is a nonempty subset of R\mathbb{R} admitting i=1nj=1nAij\sum_{i=1}^{n}\sum_{j=1}^{n}|A_{ij}| as an upper bound, and therefore has a least upper bound in R\mathbb{R}.

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