I have this problem I recently ran into and am wondering how to overcome it: I have V, which has a basis of [eikx:0≤k≤3], and inner product (f,g)∫a0f(x)¯g(x) where a is chosen between (0,∞). I need to construct an orthonormal basis (going from v to u, as u are the orthonormal vectors) of this inner product space. So far, I have performed the following calculations:
I have rewritten [eikx:0≤k≤3] as [1,eix,e2ix,e3ix].
Step 1: ||v1||2=∫a0(v1(x))2dx=a so u1=1||v1||v1=1√a.
Step 2: ~v2=v2−⟨v2,u1⟩u1
I start this step by calculating the inner product of v2 and u1 by doing the following (this is where I think I may be making a mistake):
⟨v2,u1⟩=∫a0v2(x)u1dx=1√a∫a0eixdx=1√a(−ieia+i). Upon this, ⟨v2,u1⟩u1=1a(−ieia+i).
Now we can say that ~v2=eix−1a(−ieia+i). I use this to calculate ||~v2||2=∫a0~v2(x)2dx which I got to be (−i2e2ia+i2)−(2(−ieia+i)a) and therefore I said u2=eix−1a(−ieia+i)√−i2e2ia+i2−2(−ieia+i)a.
I feel like this problem is becoming overly complicated in terms of calculations and I am questioning where I did something wrong so far. Could someone please guide me in the right direction?
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