Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: mathlib4
Topic: Naming of `inner_sum`/`sum_inner`
Jovan Gerbscheid (Apr 30 2025 at 09:39):
We have
inner_sum : inner x (∑ i ∈ s, f i) = ∑ i ∈ s, inner x (f i)
sum_inner : inner (∑ i ∈ s, f i) x = ∑ i ∈ s, inner (f i) x
inner_smul_right : inner x (r • y) = r * inner x y
inner_smul_left : inner (r • x) y = (starRingEnd 𝕜) r * inner x y
It seems to me like better names would be inner_sum_right and inner_sum_left. Or we should commit to using inner as an infix, giving smul_inner and inner_smul.
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