Complex Conjugate Vector Space

Complex Conjugate Vector Space

In mathematics, the (formal) complex conjugate of a complex vector space is the complex vector space consisting of all formal complex conjugates of elements of . That is, is a vector space whose elements are in one-to-one correspondence with the elements of :

with the following rules for addition and scalar multiplication:

Here and are vectors in, is a complex number, and denotes the complex conjugate of .

More concretely, the complex conjugate vector space is the same underlying real vector space (same set of points, same vector addition and real scalar multiplication) with the conjugate linear complex structure J (different multiplication by i).

In the case where is a linear subspace of, the formal complex conjugate is naturally isomorphic to the actual complex conjugate subspace of in .

Read more about Complex Conjugate Vector Space:  Antilinear Maps, Conjugate Linear Maps, Structure of The Conjugate, Complex Conjugate of A Hilbert Space

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