Norm Hilbert spaces over [formula omitted]-modules with a convex base

Abstract

By analogy with the classical definition, a Norm Hilbert space E is defined as a Banach space over a valued field K in which each closed subspace has an orthocomplement. In the rank one case (that is, the value group as well as the set of norms of the space are contained in [0,∞)), they were described by van Rooij in his classical book of 1978, but the name itself was introduced in 1999 by Ochsenius and Schikhof for the case of spaces with an infinite rank valuation.Here we shall only consider spaces over fields with value groups contained in (R+,⋅). Yet for the set of their norms we borrow, from the infinite rank case, the notion of a G-module. That structure allows for a greater complexity than what is offered by ordered subsets of R.In this paper we describe a new class of Norm Hilbert spaces, those in which the G-module has a convex base. Their characteristics will be the focus of our study.