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  2. What is the importance of eigenvalues/eigenvectors?

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/23312

    The behaviour of a linear transformation can be obscured by the choice of basis. For some transformations, this behaviour can be made clear by choosing a basis of eigenvectors: the linear transformation is then a (non-uniform in general) scaling along the directions of the eigenvectors. The eigenvalues are the scale factors.

  3. How to intuitively understand eigenvalue and eigenvector?

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/243533

    Then, Eigenvectors $\textbf{V}$ and corresponding eignevalues $\lambda_i$ simply let us examine such a transformation; that is, how exactly matrix $\textbf{A}$ works/transforms vectors. Regardless of any physical meaning, Eigenvectors are the directions along which linear transformation occurs only by scaling, whereas eigenvalues $\lambda_i ...

  4. Eigenvectors of real symmetric matrices are orthogonal

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/82467

    So just go read any proof of the spectral theorem, there are many copies available online. The statement is imprecise: eigenvectors corresponding to distinct eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix must be orthogonal to each other. Eigenvectors corresponding to the same eigenvalue need not be orthogonal to each other.

  5. Are all eigenvectors, of any matrix, always orthogonal?

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/142645

    In general, for any matrix, the eigenvectors are NOT always orthogonal. But for a special type of matrix, symmetric matrix, the eigenvalues are always real and eigenvectors corresponding to distinct eigenvalues are always orthogonal. If the eigenvalues are not distinct, an orthogonal basis for this eigenspace can be chosen using Gram-Schmidt.

  6. In order to get an eigenvector whose eigenvalue is 0, you solve the following system {3x − 9y = 0 − 9x + 27y = 0 Since the second equation is just the first one times − 3, this is equivalent to having to deal only with the first equation. So, take x = 3 and y = 1, for instance. Problem: (3, 1) is not unitary.

  7. What is the significance of left and right eigenvectors?

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/200370

    In simpler terms, if you arrange the right eigenvectors as columns of a matrix B, and arrange the left eigenvectors as rows of a matrix C, then BC = I, in other words B is the inverse of C Share Cite

  8. Can the zero vector be an eigenvector for a matrix?

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/990016

    7. The zero vector by convention is not an eigenvector, much in the same way that 1 is not a prime number. If we let zero be an eigenvector, we would have to repeatedly say "assume v is a nonzero eigenvector such that..." since we aren't interested in the zero vector. The reason being that v = 0 is always a solution to the system Av = λv.

  9. Real life examples for eigenvalues / eigenvectors

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/1520832

    The algorithm here found two super abstract criteria which are eigenvectors, and returned the corresponding pair of eigenvalues for each picture, used as individual coordinates to arrange the set. Face features as eigenvector: Eigenface. Using eigenvectors is a base technique in face recognition where we want to associate a name to a person ...

  10. When calculating the eigenvectors you solve the equations $(A-\lambda I)v =0$ and $(A^T-\lambda I)w=0 ...

  11. Eigenvectors of $A^TA$ and $AA^T$ - Mathematics Stack Exchange

    math.stackexchange.com/questions/3895485/eigenvectors-of-ata-and-aat

    There are r linearly independent eigenvectors un of AAT for nonzero eigenvalues, where r is the rank of A, and r linearly independent eigenvectors vn of ATA for nonzero eigenvalues. These may be chosen so that un = Avn for each n, and the corresponding eigenvalues are the same. Another n − r linearly independent eigenvectors of ATA are for ...