The normal terminology is to name U and V in SVD as "singular vectors" as opposed to eigenvectors. The term eigenvectors is normally reserved for the symmetric case of U S U' (more generally, the Hermitian case, but we only support real values).
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>wrote: > I beg to differ... U and V are left and right eigenvectors, and > singular values is denoted as Sigma (which is a square root of eigen > values of the AA' as you correctly pointed out) . >
