Semi-inner products and the concept of semi-polarity (Q511808)

The paper contains results related to semi-inner products. The axiomatic approach was introduced by \textit{G. Lumer} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 100, 29--43 (1961; Zbl 0102.32701)] (and \textit{J. R. Giles} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 129, 436--446 (1967; Zbl 0157.20103)]). The lack of an inner product structure in Banach spaces yields the motivation to introduce a semi-inner product with a more general axiom system, without the requirement of symmetry, unlike the one determining a Hilbert space. The authors utilize it on a finite-dimensional real Banach space \((X,\|\cdot\|)\) to define and investigate three concepts. Mainly, they generalize that of antinorms, already defined in Minkowski planes, for even dimensional spaces. They introduce the normality maps, which in turn lead us to the study of semi-polarity, a variant of the notion of polarity, which makes use of the underlying semi-inner product. The results are interesting and this paper should be able to motivate new researchers entering the area of semi-inner product spaces.