Symmetric Bilinear Form - Orthogonal Basis

Orthogonal Basis

A basis is orthogonal with respect to B if and only if :

When the characteristic of the field is not two, there is always an orthogonal basis. This can be proven by induction.

A basis C is orthogonal if and only if the matrix representation A is a diagonal matrix.

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