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[[Orthogonal Functions]]
[[Orthogonal Functions]]

Principle author of this page: [[User:Frohro|Rob Frohne]]

Revision as of 14:22, 26 September 2004

Complex Vector Inner Products

In order to preserve the property that the inner product of any vector with itself is the magnitude of that vector squared, we need to define the inner product of complex vectors so that

where we have assumed that the basis vectors are orthonormal and that there are dimensions. Some define the conjugate on the first vector instead of the secon, but in order to be consistent with bra-ket notation from quantum mechanics, we do it with the conjugate on the second vector.

With this we have

and

.

Orthogonal Functions

Principle author of this page: Rob Frohne