Dual Pair

A dual pair is a 3-tuple consisting of two vector spaces and over the same (real or complex) field and a bilinear form

with

and

We say puts and in duality.

We call two elements and orthogonal if

We call two sets and orthogonal if any two elements of and are orthogonal.

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