Positivity of coercive bilinear forms #
IsCoercive.apply_self_pos extracts the strict diagonal positivity argument shared by
TauCeti.coerciveRiemannianMetric and IsCoercive.pos_of_forall_apply_eq_smul_inner.
It requires neither symmetry nor finite dimension.
theorem
IsCoercive.apply_self_pos
{E : Type u_1}
[NormedAddCommGroup E]
[NormedSpace ℝ E]
{B : E →L[ℝ] E →L[ℝ] ℝ}
(hB : IsCoercive B)
{v : E}
(hv : v ≠ 0)
:
A coercive form is strictly positive on nonzero diagonal arguments.