Norm (partial)

Absolute-value norm

$$
| x| = |x|
$$

is a norm on the $\Bbb R^1$ vector spaces formed by the real or complex numbers. Any norm $p$ on a $\Bbb R^1$ is equivalent (norm-preserving isomorphism of vector spaces).

Euclidean norm

On the $\Bbb R^n$ Euclidean space, intuitive notion of length of the vector $\pmb x = (x_1, x_2, …, x_n)$ is

$$
|\pmb x|_2 := \sqrt{x^2_1+x^2_2+…+x^2_n}
$$

or for two vectors

$$
|\pmb x|:= \sqrt{\pmb x\cdot \pmb x}
$$

which is also called the $L^2$ norm, $\ell^2$ norm, 2-norm or square norm. And the distance defined by euclidean norm is called the Euclidean length, $L^2$ distance or $\ell^2$ distance.

Euclidean norm of complex numbers

The Euclidean norm of a complex number is the absolute value (also called the modulus) of it, if the complex plane is identified with the Euclidean plane $\Bbb R^2$ , the Euclidean norm is,

$$
|x + iy| = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}
$$

Finite-dimensional complex normed spaces

On an n-dimensional complex space $\Bbb C^n$, the most common norm is

$$
|z||:=\sqrt{|z_1|^2 + … + |z_n|^2} = \sqrt{z_1\bar z_1 + … +z_n\bar z_n}
$$

And can be expressed as the square root of the inner product of the vector and itself,

$$
|\pmb x|:=\sqrt{\pmb x^H\cdot \pmb x}
$$

where, $\pmb x$ is represented as a column vector $[x_1;x_2;…;x_n]$, and $\pmb x^H$ denotes its conjugate transpose. Which also can be denoted with,

$$
|\pmb x|:=\sqrt{\pmb x\cdot \pmb x}
$$

Quaternions and octonions

There are exactly four Euclidean Hurwitz algebras over the real numbers. real number $\Bbb R$, the complex numbers $\Bbb C$, the quaternions $\Bbb H$ and the octonions $\Bbb O$, with dimension of 1, 2, 4 and 8, respectively.

Taxicab norm or Manhattan norm

$$
|\pmb x|1:= \sum{i=1}^{n}|x_i|
$$

Related to the distance a taxi has to drive in a rectangular street grid to get from the origin to the point $x$ . Which can be also called the $\ell^1$ norm, and the distance derived from this norm is called the Manhattan distance or $\ell_1$ distance.

Attention, can’t written into, $\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_i$ instead, because it may yield negative results.

p-norm

Let $p\ge1$ be a real number. The p-norm (also called $\ell_p$-norm) of vector $\pmb x = (x_1, …, x_n)$ is,

$$|\pmb x|p:=\left(\sum{i-i}^{n}|x_i|^p\right)^{1/p}$$

when $p = 1$, we get taxicab norm, $p=2$, we get Euclidean norm and if $p$ approaches $\infty$, we will get the infinity norm or maximum norm:

$$
|\pmb x|_{\infty}:=\max_i|x_i|.
$$

The p-norm is related to the generalized mean or power mean.

when $0<p<1$ (wiki)

Maximum norm (special case of : infinity norm , uniform norm or supremum norm)

$$
|x|_{\infty} :=max(|x_1|, …, |x+|)
$$

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