This is an elementary (yet important) fact in matrix analysis.
Statement
Let be an
complex Hermitian matrix which means
where
denotes the conjugate transpose operation. Let
be two different eigenvalues of
. Let
be the two eigenvectors of
corresponding to the two eigenvalues
and
, respectively.
Then the following is true:
Here denotes the usual inner product of two vectors
.
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