Coercive Functional

A bilinear functional on a normed space is called coercive (or sometimes elliptic) if there exists a positive constant such that

for all .

See also

Lax-Milgram Theorem

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References

Debnath, L. and Mikusiński, P. Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1990.

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