subspace: Angle between two subspaces
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Angle between two subspaces

Description

Finds the angle between two subspaces.

Usage

subspace(A, B)

Arguments

A, B

Numeric matrices; vectors will be considered as column vectors. These matrices must have the same number or rows.

Details

Finds the angle between two subspaces specified by the columns of A and B.

Value

An angle in radians.

Note

It is not necessary that two subspaces be the same size in order to find the angle between them. Geometrically, this is the angle between two hyperplanes embedded in a higher dimensional space.

References

Strang, G. (1998). Introduction to Linear Algebra. Wellesley-Cambridge Press.

Examples

180 * subspace(c(1, 2), c(2, 1)) / pi  #=> 36.87
180 * subspace(c(0, 1), c(1, 2)) / pi  #=> 26.565

H <- hadamard(8)
A <- H[, 2:4]
B <- H[, 5:8]
subspace(A, B)    #=> 1.5708 or pi/2, i.e. A and B are orthogonal

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