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Re: orthonormal eigenvectors

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  • Subject: [mg88398] Re: orthonormal eigenvectors
  • From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 06:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: University of Bergen
  • References: <fvhe57$400$1@smc.vnet.net>

. . wrote:
> Dear MathGroup,
> 
> I have a 3X3 matrix M:
> {1,-i(2^(1/2)),0}
> {i(2^(1/2)),0,0}
> {0,0,2}
> 
> And I am trying to find a set of orthonormal eigenvectors for M.
> If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

The set returned by Eigenvectors[] is already orthogonal, and you can 
normalize them with Normalize[].


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