Pythagorean orthogonality and additive mappings

Abstract

In this note we consider a real normed vector spaceX equipped with the isosceles orthogonality or the Pythagorean orthogonality, both of them defined by R. C. James. It is known that any odd, isosceles orthogonally additive mapping fromX into an Abelian group is unconditionally additive whenever dimX ≥ 3. Also, it is worth mentioning that this result was the first of this sort based on a non-homogeneous relation. In this context, we derive here the same for the other non-homogeneous orthogonality, the Pythagorean one, answering in part a pretty old and famous question. The proof uses the corresponding result for isosceles orthogonality and a detailed analysis of the geometry of normed spaces.