Linear algebra (Osnabrück 2024-2025)/Part I/Exercise sheet 29




Exercise for the break

Lay the connecting arrow from your left ear to the right small finger of the person in front of you, in a parallel way, at the tip of the nose of your left neighbor. What is the result?




Exercises

Time is an affine line over . Lay the connecting arrow from the moment of your first milk tooth to the moment of your school enrollment at the moment now. What is the result?


Determine the parameter form for the line given by the equation

in .


Let be a vector space, a linear subspace, and let be an affine subspace. Show that, for every point , we can also write .


Let be a vector space, and let denote an affine subspace. Show that is a linear subspace of if and only if contains .


Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting point and a translation space.


Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting point and a translating space.


We consider the three planes in , given by the following equations.

Determine all points in .


Let , and let denote a field. Let different elements and elements be given. Show that the set of all polynomials of degree at most , satisfying

for , is an affine subspace of . What is the corresponding linear subspace? What can we say about the dimension of , when is empty?


Let be an affine space over the -vector space . Show the following identities in .

  1. for .
  2. for .
  3. for .


Show that the empty set is an affine space over any -vector space .


Let be a nonempty affine space over a -vector space . Let be a fixed point, and let

be the corresponding bijection. Using this bijection, we identify with

via the mapping


a) Show that is an affine subspace of , with translation space .


b) Show that

holds for all .


Determine by a drawing the point that is given by the barycentric combination

in the image on the right. Start with different starting points.


Show that, for a family , , of points in an affine space , a barycentric combination

defines a unique point in .


Let be a point in an affine space over . Show that the following expressions are barycentric combinations for (let and ).

  1. .
  2. .
  3. .


Instead of , we often write . The following exercises show that this does not lead to misconceptions.

Let be a -vector space, which we consider as an affine space over itself. Let be points. Show .


Let be an affine space over the -vector space . Let , , and denote points in , and let be a barycentric combination. Show that

holds, where the left-hand expression is a barycentric combination.


Let be a vector space over , which we consider as an affine space. Let with , and denote a barycentric combination. Show that the point defined by this barycentric combination in affine space equals the vector sum .


What are the barycentric coordinates of your favorite color in additive mixing?


Let be an affine space over a -vector space , and let denote a finite family of points in . For , let

with for each , be a family of barycentric combinations of the . Let fulfilling . Show that one can write

as a barycentric combination of the .


Imagine four points in the natural -space such that they form an affine basis of the space.


Imagine four points in the natural -space such that they do not form an affine basis of the space, but such that each three of these points form an affine basis in an affine plane.




Hand-in-exercises

Exercise (4 marks)

Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting point and a translating space.


Exercise (6 (3+3) marks)

Let be a -vector space. We consider the set

which is an affine space over .

a) Show that the points , , form an affine basis of if and only if the (considered as vectors in ) form a vector space basis of .


b) Show that, in this case, for a point , the barycentric coordinates of with respect to equal the coordinates of with respect to the vector space basis .


Exercise (3 marks)

Let and be affine spaces over the field . Show that the product space is also an affine space.


Exercise (3 marks)

Let and be affine spaces over the field , and let an affine basis of and an affine basis of be given. Show that

is an affine basis of the product space .



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