From: Josh Moore on
Here's the problem. I have implemented a method from a particular research paper which uses SVD to get an orthonormal basis for a symmetric matrix. MATLAB, however, orders the vectors resulting from SVD according to decreasing magnitude. It's important for my purpose here that the original ordering be maintained, but the SVD method doesn't seem to give any information about the correspondence of the resulting vectors to the vectors contained in the original matrix.

Any ideas?