1. A Hermitian form is a numerical function that satisfies certain properties relating to addition and multiplication of vectors in a complex linear space.
2. A Hermitian form is symmetric if its value is unchanged when the order of the vectors is reversed.
3. A symmetric Hermitian form is positive definite if its value is always positive, excluding the zero vector.
4. A unitary space is a complex linear space equipped with a symmetric positive definite Hermitian bilinear form, known as the scalar product, that assigns a complex number to each pair of vectors according to certain axioms.