To find dual basis from the inner product Matrix?

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To find dual basis from the inner product Matrix!?

Homework Statement


WE know the inner product matrix (capital)Gamma and that's all. How do we "construct" a dual basis?



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I know that the orthonormal basis is nothing but a dual basis. and we can constuct orthonormal basis using G-S method. But, I am clueless about how to construct dual basis from Gamma?

Thanks in advance.
 
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I got it, if anybody wants i can post the answer. :-)
 
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