Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Inner Product Spaces - 5.3 The Gram-Schmidt Process - Problems - Page 365: 6

Answer

$\{(-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}),(\frac{2}{\sqrt 6},\frac{1}{\sqrt 6},0,\frac{1}{\sqrt 6})\}$

Work Step by Step

Let $x_1=(-1,1,1,1) \\ x_2=(1,2,1,2)$ According to Gram-Schmidt process, we have: $v_1=x_1=(-1,1,1,1)\\ v_2=x_2-\frac{}{||v_1||^2}v_1\\ =(1,2,1,2)-\frac{((-1,1,1,1),(1,2,1,2)}{||(-1,1,1,1)||^2} (-1,1,1,1)\\ =(1,2,1,2)-\frac{(-1).1+1.2+1.1+1.2}{1^2+1^2+1^2+(-1)^2} (-1,1,1,1)\\ =(2,1,0,1)$ To determine an orthogonal set, we obtain: $\frac{v_1}{||v_1||}=\frac{(-1,1,1,1)}{\sqrt (-1)^2+1^2+1^2+1^2}=\frac{(-1,1,1,1)}{\sqrt 4}=(-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ $\frac{v_2}{||v_2||}=\frac{(2,1,0,1)}{\sqrt (2^2+1^2+0+1^2)}=\frac{(2,1,0,1)}{\sqrt 6}=(\frac{2}{\sqrt 6},\frac{1}{\sqrt 6},0,\frac{1}{\sqrt 6})$ Hence, a corresponding orthonormal set of vector is : $\{(-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}),(\frac{2}{\sqrt 6},\frac{1}{\sqrt 6},0,\frac{1}{\sqrt 6})\}$
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