Vector Norm
Given an -dimensional vector
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a general vector norm , sometimes written with a double bar as
, is a nonnegative norm defined such that
1. when
and
iff
.
2. for any scalar
.
3. .
In this work, a single bar is used to denote a vector norm, absolute value, or complex modulus, while a double bar is reserved for denoting a matrix norm.
The vector norm for
, 2, ... is defined as
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The -norm of vector
is implemented as Norm[v, p], with the 2-norm being returned by Norm[v].
The special case is defined as
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The most commonly encountered vector norm (often simply called "the norm" of a vector, or sometimes the magnitude of a vector) is the L2-norm, given by
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This and other types of vector norms are summarized in the following table, together with the value of the norm for the example vector .
name | symbol | value | approx. |
![]() | ![]() | 6 | 6.000 |
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 3.742 |
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 3.302 |
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 3.146 |
![]() | ![]() | 3 | 3.000 |