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Realification preserves a complex norm and its metric
Statement
Let be a complex normed space and define for . On the realification , the same function is a real norm. The underlying set, addition, norm values, and induced metric are unchanged.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A complex normed space and its realification . For each , write for its canonical complex image.
separates zero, is homogeneous for every complex scalar by the complex modulus, and satisfies the triangle inequality (Complex norm and complex normed space).
Realification has the same underlying set and addition, and its real scalar action is the complex scalar action restricted along the canonical real embedding (Realification of a complex vector space by restriction of scalars).
For every real , the complex modulus of its canonical image is (Complex modulus restricts to real absolute value).
A real norm separates zero, is absolutely homogeneous for real scalars, and satisfies the triangle inequality (A norm on a real vector space, the induced metric, and the dictionary with the metric axioms).
The induced real norm metric is the function , which is a metric (A norm on a real vector space, the induced metric, and the dictionary with the metric axioms).
Proof
Since realification preserves the set, zero vector, and addition, the separation and triangle conditions in [F1] hold unchanged on . The codomain remains .
For and , [F2] gives . Hence [F1] and [F3] give . Together with step 1.1, this is exactly the real norm criterion [F4].
The set and addition are unchanged by [F2], so additive inverses and differences are unchanged as well. The realified norm's induced metric is therefore by [F5], the same function defined in the statement, with the same values on the same pairs.