Symmetric continuous bilinear maps #
Symmetric continuous bilinear maps form a closed linear subspace. Simultaneous change of variables preserves this subspace. These restricted coordinate changes provide the model fibres and gluing maps for bundles of symmetric bilinear tensors.
ContinuousLinearEquiv.symmetricBilinearMapsCongr restricts Mathlib's iterated arrowCongr
using ContinuousLinearEquiv.ofSubmodules. It needs only the topology of the original
spaces, so it applies to bundle fibres without choosing fibre norms. The identity, inverse
and composition laws give consistent coordinates on overlaps. In finite dimensions these
equivalences also identify the dimensions of the symmetric fibres.
ContinuousLinearMap.symmetricBilinearMapsComp pulls symmetric bilinear maps back along a
continuous linear map, in both arguments simultaneously; the symmetric coordinates of a change of
variables are the pullback along its inverse. On normed spaces the symmetric subspace carries the
restricted operator norm, and the pullback depends continuously on the map it pulls back along.
On a normed model fibre, ContinuousLinearMap.symmetrizeBilinear is the continuous linear
retraction b โฆ (b + bแต) / 2 when two is nonzero. It commutes with changes of variables, so its
image is independent of the chosen fibre coordinates. Taking real-valued maps on tangent spaces
gives the fibre model for symmetric covariant two-tensors, the ambient tensors for metrics.
The linear subspace of symmetric continuous bilinear maps.
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Symmetry is closed in the topology of continuous bilinear maps.
The generic submodule instances would have to solve nested instance problems on the iterated space of continuous linear maps, which exceed the default depth of pending instance problems. These shortcuts make the symmetric subspace usable as a model fibre.
Pullback of symmetric bilinear maps along a continuous linear map, applied to both arguments simultaneously.
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A change of variables identifies the spaces of symmetric bilinear maps.
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The identity change of variables gives the identity symmetric coordinates.
Reversing a change of variables reverses the induced symmetric coordinates.
Symmetric coordinates respect composition, giving the overlap cocycle law.
The symmetric coordinates of a change of variables are pullback along its inverse.
The restricted operator norm on symmetric bilinear maps.
Averaging a bilinear map with its transpose, with codomain the symmetric subspace.
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Symmetrization is the identity on symmetric bilinear maps.
Every symmetric bilinear map is the symmetrization of a continuous bilinear map.
Symmetrization commutes with simultaneous pullback of its two arguments.
Symmetric pullback depends continuously on the map it pulls back along.