spaninter

subspace intersection

Calling Sequence

[X,dim]=spaninter(A,B [,tol])

Arguments

:A, B two real or complex matrices with equal number of rows : :X orthogonal or unitary square matrix : :dim integer, dimension of subspace range( A) inter range( B) :

Description

computes the intersection of range( A) and range( B).

The first dim columns of X span this intersection i.e. X(:,1:dim) is an orthogonal basis for

range( A) inter range( B)

In the X basis A and B are respectively represented by:

X’*A and X’*B.

tol is a threshold ( sqrt(%eps) is the default value).

Examples

A=`rand`_(5,3)*`rand`_(3,4);     // A is 5 x 4, rank=3
B=[A(:,2),`rand`_(5,1)]*`rand`_(2,2);
[X,dim]=spaninter(A,B);
X1=X(:,1:dim);    //The intersection
`svd`_(A),`svd`_([X1,A])   // X1 in span(A)
`svd`_(B),`svd`_([B,X1])   // X1 in span(B)

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