Why are the columns of the Fourier matrix automatically orthogonal under the Hermitian inner product, making its inverse just (1/n) times its conjugate transpose?
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Definition of from
Record that the entry is with indices running from to , and write out all sixteen entries of using .
Orthogonal columns under the Hermitian inner product
Take columns and of , conjugate one of them and carry the inner product through to , then compute a column length of and state .
The inverse
Write the formula down, record that is the scaling with orthonormal columns, and note that inverting takes only a conjugate transpose.