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Bessel's inequality is strict for a vector outside the span of a proper orthonormal set
Example
In standard , take the orthonormal list and . Then Bessel's inequality is strict:
The gap is the squared norm of the orthogonal remainder .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The first two standard basis vectors and .
Bessel's inequality becomes equality exactly when the vector lies in the span of the orthonormal list (Bessel's inequality for a finite orthonormal list and Parseval's identity for an orthonormal basis).
Standard coordinate inner products are dot products (The standard formulas on and on are inner products).
Verification
By [L2], the two coefficients are and , while . Hence the Bessel sum is and the gap is .
The projection onto is , leaving of squared norm . Since is outside the span, strictness also follows from [L1].
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