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Householder reflectors in real or complex inner-product spaces

Definition

Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional real or complex inner-product space and let $v \in V$ satisfy $∥ v ∥ = 1$ , where $∥ \cdot ∥$ is the norm of The norm $∥ v ∥ = \sqrt{⟨ v, v ⟩}$ induced by a real or complex inner product. The Householder reflector with normal $v$ is the linear map

$H_{v} (x) : = x - 2 ⟨ x, v ⟩ v .$ In matrix form relative to an orthonormal basis, this is $H_{v} = I - 2 v v^{*} .$

The reflector fixes every vector orthogonal to $v$ and sends $v$ to $- v$ .

Depends on

The norm $\lVert v\rVert=\sqrt{\langle v,v\rangle}$ induced by a real or complex inner product

Used by

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Sources

Tobin A. Driscoll and Richard J. Braun, Fundamentals of Numerical Computation, Definition 3.4.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
David Bindel, CS 4220: Numerical Analysis, Least squares and QR (standard reference, not scraped)