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The relationship between the notion of closedness, lower semicontinuity and completeness (of a quotient) of the domain of a positive sesquilinear form defined on a subspace of a topological vector space is investigated and sufficient conditions for their equivalence are given.
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Bellomonte, G., Trapani, C. & Triolo, S. Closedness and lower semicontinuity of positive sesquilinear forms. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 58, 265–274 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12215-009-0020-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12215-009-0020-4