Let
be a
-valued 2-functional on
. If
is such that for each
and for all
and
we have:
-
(i)
,
-
(ii)
,
then
is called a
-linear 2-functional with domain
. Further, it is easy to show that if
and
are linear dependent in
, then
for
.
Let
be a
-linear 2-functional. For any
, one can write
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(4.1)
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where
,
,
and
with
and
.
Let us first show that
are real linear 2-functionals, where
and
are real linear subspaces of
.
Given
,
with
and
, one has:
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Then
Hence
and
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Further,
implies
That is,
.
This implies
and
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In particular, setting
and
, we have:
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Thus, the mappings
and
are real linear 2-functionals on
.
Similarly one can show that
and
are also real linear 2-functionals on
.