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Feasible inner products with two unit vectors

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For linearly independent unit vectors y,z with c=y⋅z, a pair
p=x⋅y,q=x⋅z
(1)
is attained by some unit vector x exactly when
1−c2p2−2cpq+q2​≤1.
(2)
The left-hand side is the squared norm of the least-norm vector having those two inner products.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2024 / ia / Paper 1 / 5A / b / Solution

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