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Euclidean spaces

Inner products and candies

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Britney is choosing a basis {e⃗1,e⃗2}\left\{\vec{e}_{1},\vec{e}_{2}\right\} of VV (two-dimensional vector space) and Allan gives her three real numbers a11a_{11}, a22a_{22} and a12a_{12}. Britney checks if there is an inner product ⟨⋅,⋅⟩\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle, such that ⟨e⃗1,e⃗1⟩=a11⟨e⃗2,e⃗2⟩=a22⟨e⃗1,e⃗2⟩=a12\left\langle\vec{e}_{1},\vec{e}_{1}\right\rangle= a_{11}\\ \left\langle\vec{e}_{2},\vec{e}_{2}\right\rangle= a_{22}\\ \left\langle\vec{e}_{1},\vec{e}_{2}\right\rangle= a_{12}If there is such an inner product, then Britney gives Allan a candy.

Is she giving Allan a candy if his numbers are a11=1a_{11} = 1, a22=2a_{22} = 2, a12=−3a_{12} = -3?

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