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Induction

Continuing by induction the process of adding a linear combination of the previous steps to the arbitrarily chosen direction ${\bf c}_n$(known in mathematics as the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process), we finally arrive at the complete definition of the new step ${\bf s}_n$, as follows:  
 \begin{displaymath}
{\bf s}_n = {\bf s}_n^{(1)} = 
{\bf c}_{n} + \sum_{j=1}^{j=n-1}\,\beta_n^{(j)}\,{\bf s}_{j}\;.\end{displaymath} (22)
Here the coefficients $\beta_n^{(j)}$ are defined by equations  
 \begin{displaymath}
\beta_n^{(j)} = 
- {{\left({\bf A\,c}_n,\,{\bf A\,s}_{j}\right)} \over
{\Vert{\bf A\,s}_{j}\Vert^2}}\;,\end{displaymath} (23)
which correspond to the orthogonality principles  
 \begin{displaymath}
\left({\bf A\,s}_n,\,{\bf A\,s}_{j}\right) = 0\;,\;\;1 \leq j \leq n-1\end{displaymath} (24)
and  
 \begin{displaymath}
\left({\bf r}_{n},\,{\bf A\,s}_{j}\right) = 0\;,\;1 \leq j \leq n\;.\end{displaymath} (25)
It is these orthogonality properties that allowed us to optimize the search parameters one at a time instead of solving the n-dimensional system of optimization equations for $\alpha_n$ and $\beta_n^{(j)}$.


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Stanford Exploration Project
11/12/1997