Parallelogram-law-type identities

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(93)00301-FMaRDI QIDQ1899372zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ömer Eğecioğlu

Publication date 9 October 1995

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(93)00301-F

zbMATH Keywords

alternating group complex plane parallelogram law permutation symmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)

Review text

The parallelogram law in the complex plane is \(2(|a|^2+ |b|^2)= |a+ b|^2+ |a- b|^2\); it relates the lengths of the diagonals of a parallelogram with vertices \(0\), \(a\), \(b\) and \(a+ b\) to the lengths of its sides. In three theorems, the author proves several generalizations of this formula; they all refer to arbitrary complex numbers \(z_1,\dots, z_n\) (instead of \(a\), \(b\)) together with a fixed set \(A= \{\alpha_1,\dots, \alpha_n\}\) of complex numbers with \(\alpha_1+\cdots+ \alpha_n= 0\). Special choices of \(n\) and \(A\) lead to formulas involving sums of roots of unity, trigonometric functions, binomial coefficients, and permutations over the symmetric and the alternating groups (of degree \(n\)).

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