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Gram Schmidt

Gram Schmidt

Let \(V\) be a finite dimensional inner product space and \(\{v_1,\dots,v_k\}\) be a linearly independent subset of \(V\). The vectors \(w_i\) recursively defined by

\[ \begin{cases} w_1=v_1\\ w_j=v_j-\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^{j-1}\frac{\langle v_j,w_{i}\rangle}{\|w_{i}\|^2}w_{i},&\text{if }2\le j\le k \end{cases} \]

form an linearly independent and orthogonal set. Moreover, the span of \(\{v_1,\dots,v_k\}\) is equal to the span of \(\{w_1,\dots,w_k\}\).

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Gram Schmidt 就是把下一個向量扣掉關於排在他前面的所有向量的正射影,得到的其實就是垂直分量。