Orthonormal Gram-Schmidt method

This procedure is continued until there is a success and a failure connected with each of the independent variables. Then a new set of orthogonal directions is obtained. The first direction is obtained by connecting the initial point with the best point obtained. When there are many independent variables the Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization method should be used., The whole procedure is then repeated, with the best point obtained so far becoming the new origin. 

The Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization method is applied using the following steps. 

When this method is applied to the polynomial approximation of mechanisms, the function G is the response of the kinetic model calculated using the original detailed reaction mechanism, and (/> is a series of orthonormal polynomials constructed by a Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization process using the data set. The function F, defining the final algebraic model, is constructed in such a way that only the significant members of the summation are considered. 

The Lanczos method is based on generating the orthonormal basis in Krylov space Ki =span c, Ac, A c by applying the Gram-Schmidt orthogonaliza-tion process, described in Appendix A. In matrix notations this approach is associated with the reduction of the symmetric matrix A to a tridiagonal matrix and also with the special properties of T/,. This reduction (called also QT decomposition) is described by the formula... 

The first three states of the method of moments [8] characterize the space of the three relevant quasi-bound states (the model space). Since these states are non-orthogonal, the Gram-Schmidt procedure applied to 1), H l) and provide the orthonormalized states i), i — 1,2,3). In this basis the matrix representation of the exact energy-dependent Hamiltonian (13) may be written as... 

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