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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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