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The Orthogonal Group#

Theorem: The Orthogonal Group

Let \((V, \langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle)\) be a finite-dimensional real inner product space.

The set of all orthogonal transformations \(f: V \to V\) is a subgroup of the general linear group.

Definition: The Orthogonal Group

We call this subgroup the orthogonal group.

Notation

We denote the orthogonal group from \(V\) as \(O(V)\). When \(V\) is the real vector space \(\mathbb{R}^n\), we also write \(O(n, \mathbb{R})\).

Proof

TODO