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pogonyaev
3 years ago
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Orthogonalizing vectors. Suppose that a and b are any n-vectors. Show that we can always find a scalar γ so that (a − γb) ⊥ b, a

nd that γ is unique if b 6= 0. (Give a formula for the scalar γ.) Roughly speaking, we can always subtract a multiple of a vector from another one, so that the result is orthogonal to the original vector. This is called orthogonalization, and is a basic idea used in the Gram-Schmidt algorithm.
Mathematics
1 answer:
jeka57 [31]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

\\ \gamma= \frac{a\cdot b}{b\cdot b}

Step-by-step explanation:

The question to be solved is the following :

Suppose that a and b are any n-vectors. Show that we can always find a scalar γ so that (a − γb) ⊥ b, and that γ is unique if b \neq 0. Recall that given two vectors a,b  a⊥ b if and only if a\cdot b =0 where \cdot is the dot product defined in \mathbb{R}^n. Suposse that b\neq 0. We want to find γ such that (a-\gamma b)\cdot b=0. Given that the dot product can be distributed and that it is linear, the following equation is obtained

(a-\gamma b)\cdot b = 0 = a\cdot b - (\gamma b)\cdot b= a\cdot b - \gamma b\cdot b

Recall that a\cdot b, b\cdot b are both real numbers, so by solving the value of γ, we get that

\gamma= \frac{a\cdot b}{b\cdot b}

By construction, this γ is unique if b\neq 0, since if there was a \gamma_2 such that (a-\gamma_2b)\cdot b = 0, then

\gamma_2 = \frac{a\cdot b}{b\cdot b}= \gamma

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