Letter to the Editor: Experiments on orthogonalization by biorthogonal representations of orthogonal projectors

  • Authors:
  • Miroslav Andrle;Laura Rebollo-Neira

  • Affiliations:
  • Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK;Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A number of experiments are performed with the aim of enhancing a particular feature arising when biorthogonal sequences are used for the purpose of orthogonalization. It is shown that an orthogonalization process executed by biorthogonal sequences and followed by a re-orthogonalization step admits four numerically different realizations. The four possibilities are originated by the fact that, although an orthogonal projector is by definition a self-adjoint operator, due to numerical errors in finite precision arithmetic the biorthogonal representation does not fulfil such a property. In the experiments presented here one of the realizations is shown clearly numerically superior to the remaining three.