{ "id": "0908.1942", "version": "v2", "published": "2009-08-13T17:45:54.000Z", "updated": "2009-08-15T12:06:56.000Z", "title": "Orthonormal bases of Hilbert spaces", "authors": [ "Ilijas Farah" ], "comment": "The main result of the note has been known. See Orthonormal bases and quasi-splitting subspaces in pre-Hilbert spaces D. Buhagiar, E. Chetcuti, H. Weber, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 345 (2008) 725-730. and the references thereof. Thanks to Nigel Kalton to pointing this out", "categories": [ "math.LO", "math.FA" ], "abstract": "I prove that a Hilbert space has the property that each of its dense (not necessarily closed) subspaces contains an orthoormal basis if and only if it is separable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2009-08-15T12:06:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "hilbert space", "orthonormal bases", "subspaces contains" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0908.1942F" } } }