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BVOrthonormalizeColumn

Orthonormalize one of the column vectors with respect to the previous ones.

Synopsis

#include "slepcbv.h"   
PetscErrorCode BVOrthonormalizeColumn(BV bv,PetscInt j,PetscBool replace,PetscReal *norm,PetscBool *lindep)
Collective

Input Parameters

bv  - the basis vectors context
j  - index of column to be orthonormalized
replace  - whether it is allowed to set the vector randomly

Output Parameters

norm  - (optional) norm of the vector after orthogonalization and before normalization
lindep  - (optional) flag indicating that linear dependence was determined during orthogonalization

Notes

This is equivalent to a call to BVOrthogonalizeColumn() followed by a call to BVScaleColumn() with the reciprocal of the norm.

This function first orthogonalizes vector V[j] with respect to V[0..j-1], where V[.] are the vectors of BV. A byproduct of this computation is norm, the norm of the vector after orthogonalization. Secondly, it scales the vector with 1/norm, so that the resulting vector has unit norm.

If after orthogonalization the vector V[j] is exactly zero, it cannot be normalized because norm=0. In that case, it could be left as zero or replaced by a random vector that is then orthonormalized. The latter is achieved by setting the argument replace to TRUE. The vector will be replaced by a random vector also if lindep was set to TRUE, even if the norm is not exactly zero.

If the vector has been replaced by a random vector, the output arguments norm and lindep will be set according to the orthogonalization of this new vector.

See Also

BVOrthogonalizeColumn(), BVScaleColumn()

Level

advanced

Location

src/sys/classes/bv/interface/bvorthog.c

Index of all BV routines
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