Re: Normalize a vector ????
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- Subject: [mg16599] Re: [mg16542] Normalize a vector ????
- From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer at col2.telecom.com.co>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:55:06 -0500
- Organization: Universidad del Valle
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Alessandro,
Options[Normalize] shows that Dot is used as InnerProduct, but
Dot[{1,I},{1,I}]==0. Try using InnerProduct->(#1.Conjugate[#2]&).
Jurgen
alessandro agresti wrote:
>
> Let's take the complex-vector vett={1, i}
> The normalized complex-vector is {1/sqrt(2), i/sqrt(2)};
> in fact : Conjugate[vett].vett , we get 1.
> Now let's take the LinearAlgebra`Orthogonalization` packet and
> let's do : Normalize[vett].
> We get 1/0 infinity warning......
> why???
>
> thank You for Your BIG help.
> alessandro
>
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- Normalize a vector ????