Copyright | (c) Justus Sagemüller 2015 |
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License | GPL v3 |
Maintainer | (@) sagemueller $ geo.uni-koeln.de |
Stability | experimental |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | None |
Language | Haskell2010 |
Stiefel manifolds are a generalisation of the concept of the UnitSphere
in real vector spaces.
The n-th Stiefel manifold is the space of all possible configurations of
n orthonormal vectors. In the case n = 1, simply a single normalised vector,
i.e. a vector on the unit sphere.
Alternatively, the stiefel manifolds can be defined as quotient spaces under scalings, and we prefer that definition since it doesn't require a notion of unit length (which is only defined in inner-product spaces).