Tuesday, 30 July 2013

linear algebra - Constructing an orthonormal basis with complex numbers?

I have this problem I recently ran into and am wondering how to overcome it: I have V, which has a basis of [eikx:0k3], 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:0k3] as [1,eix,e2ix,e3ix].



Step 1: ||v1||2=a0(v1(x))2dx=a so u1=1||v1||v1=1a.




Step 2: ~v2=v2v2,u1u1



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=1aa0eixdx=1a(ieia+i). Upon this, v2,u1u1=1a(ieia+i).



Now we can say that ~v2=eix1a(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=eix1a(ieia+i)i2e2ia+i22(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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