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In mathematics, a real structure on a complex vector space is a way to decompose the complex vector space in the direct sum of two real vector spaces. The prototype of such a structure is the field of complex numbers itself, considered as a complex vector space over itself and with the conjugation map , with , giving the "canonical" real structure on , that is . The conjugation map is antilinear: and . ==Vector space== A real structure on a complex vector space ''V'' is an antilinear involution . A real structure defines a real subspace is an isomorphism. Conversely any vector space that is the complexification of a real vector space has a natural real structure. One first notes that every complex space ''V'' has a real form obtained by taking the same vectors as in the original set and restricting the scalars to be real. If and then the vectors and are linearly independent in the real form of ''V''. Hence: : Naturally, one would wish to represent ''V'' as the direct sum of two real vector spaces, the "real and imaginary parts of ''V''". There is no canonical way of doing this: such a splitting is an additional real structure in ''V''. It may be introduced as follows.〔Budinich, P. and Trautman, A. ''The Spinorial Chessboard''. Springer-Verlag, 1988, p. 29.〕 Let be an antilinear map such that , that is an antilinear involution of the complex space ''V''. Any vector can be written , where . Therefore, one gets a direct sum of vector spaces where: : and . Both sets and are real vector spaces. The linear map , where , is an isomorphism of real vector spaces, whence: :. The first factor is also denoted by . The direct sum reads now as: :, i.e. as the direct sum of the "real" parts of ''V''. This construction strongly depends on the choice of an antilinear involution of the complex vector space ''V''. The complexification of the real vector space admits a natural real structure and hence is canonically isomorphic to the direct sum of two copies of : :. It follows a natural linear isomorphism between complex vector spaces with a given real structure. A real structure on a complex vector space ''V'', that is an antilinear involution , may be equivalently described in terms of the linear map from the vector space to the complex conjugate vector space defined by :.〔Budinich, P. and Trautman, A. ''The Spinorial Chessboard''. Springer-Verlag, 1988, p. 29.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Real structure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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