ABSTRACT

DðuÞZ kvKuk (8.1)

where the norm is the inner product generated norm.

Since u

, u

,.,u

spans S any vector in S may be written as a linear

combination of the vectors in this basis

uZ

X

a

u

(8.2)

Thus D(u)Z f(a

,a

,.,a

) and is rendered stationary if dD(u)Z0. This

implies

X

vD

va

da

Z 0 (8.3)

vD

va

Z 0 iZ 1;2;.;n (8.4)

Substitution of Equation 8.2 into Equation 8.1 leads to

DðuÞZ

vK

X

a

u

Z vK

X

a

u

;vK

X

a

u

‰ !