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Linear Algebra, Theory And Applications, 2012a

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330 SELF ADJOINT OPERATORS<br />

Of course, this shows that<br />

||A|| 2 F = ∑ i<br />

σ 2 i ,<br />

the sum of the squares of the singular values of A.<br />

Why is the singular value decomposition important? It implies<br />

( )<br />

σ 0<br />

A = U<br />

V ∗<br />

0 0<br />

where σ is the diagonal matrix having the singular values down the diagonal. Now sometimes<br />

A is a huge matrix, 1000×2000 or something like that. This happens in applications to<br />

situations where the entries of A describe a picture. What also happens is that most of the<br />

singular values are very small. What if you deleted those which were very small, say for all<br />

i ≥ l and got a new matrix<br />

A ′ ≡ U<br />

(<br />

σ<br />

′<br />

0<br />

0 0<br />

)<br />

V ∗ ?<br />

Then the entries of A ′ would end up being close to the entries of A but there is much less<br />

information to keep track of. This turns out to be very useful. More precisely, letting<br />

⎛<br />

⎞<br />

σ 1 0<br />

( )<br />

⎜<br />

σ = ⎝<br />

. ..<br />

⎟<br />

⎠ ,U ∗ σ 0<br />

AV =<br />

,<br />

0 0<br />

0 σ r<br />

||A − A ′ || 2 F = ∣ ∣∣∣<br />

∣ ∣∣∣<br />

U<br />

( σ − σ<br />

′<br />

0<br />

0 0<br />

)<br />

V ∗ ∣ ∣∣∣<br />

∣ ∣∣∣<br />

2<br />

F<br />

=<br />

r∑<br />

k=l+1<br />

Thus A is approximated by A ′ where A ′ has rank l

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