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Re: How eigenvectors are normalized

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  • Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 05:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5/24/13 at 6:27 AM, bblomberg at mail.bradley.edu (Ben Blomberg)
wrote:

>When I use the function "Eigenvectors" how are the eigenvectors
>normalized? Is it Euclidean norm equal to 1, with the largest
>component has imaginary part equal to zero?

 From the documentation:

For approximate numerical matrices m, the eigenvectors are normalized.

which is easily verified by:

In[1]:= m = RandomReal[1, {3, 3}];
v = Eigenvectors[m];
Norm /@ v

Out[3]= {1.,1.,1.}




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