Symmetric bilinear form/Nondegenerate/Gram determinant/Exercise
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Let be an -dimensional real vector space, and let denote a symmetric bilinear form on . Show that the following properties are equivalent.
- The bilinear form is nondegenerate.
- The Gram matrix of the bilinear form with respect to any basis is invertible.
- The bilinear form is of type (with some ).