Conformal maps between inner product spaces #
In an inner product space, a map is conformal iff it preserves inner products up to a scalar factor.
theorem
isConformalMap_iff
{E : Type u_1}
{F : Type u_2}
[NormedAddCommGroup E]
[NormedAddCommGroup F]
[InnerProductSpace ℝ E]
[InnerProductSpace ℝ F]
(f : E →L[ℝ] F)
:
A map between two inner product spaces is a conformal map if and only if it preserves inner
products up to a scalar factor, i.e., there exists a positive c : ℝ
such that
⟪f u, f v⟫ = c * ⟪u, v⟫
for all u
, v
.