Indefinite Inner Product Space - Pontrjagin Space

If, the Krein space is called a Pontrjagin space or -space. (Conventionally, the indefinite inner product is given the sign that makes finite.) In this case is known as the number of positive squares of . Pontrjagin spaces are named after Lev Semenovich Pontryagin.

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