46 Basic Concepts of the Theory of Difference Sche1nes
(x, y)A = (y, x)A or (Ax, y) = (x, Ay) = (Ay, x). The axioms of the inner
product imply the Cauchy-Bunyakovski1 inequality
and the triangle inequality
This profound result is covered by the following assertion.
Lemma 2 For any positive self-adjoint operator A in a real Hilbert space
the generalized Cauchy-Bunyakovskil inequality holds:
(9) (Ax, y)^2 <(Ax, x) (Ay, y).
Remark The preceding inequality remains valid in the case when A is a
nonnegative operator.
If A is a self-adjoint operator for which A-^1 exists, its "negative" norm
can be defined by
(10)
In this line, we claim that
( 1 O')
l(<p,x)I
II <p llA-1 = sup x;tO II J: II A
Indeed, we deduce from inequality (9) that
yielding
sup
x;to
On the other hand, for x = A -l <p it is plain to show that
(<p,A-1<p)
j(AA-l<p,A-l<p) = ll<pllA-1,