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




Exercise for the break

Lay the connecting arrowMDLD/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 lineMDLD/affine line over . Lay the connecting arrowMDLD/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,MDLD/vector space a linear subspace,MDLD/linear subspace and let be an affine subspace.MDLD/affine subspace (translated) Show that, for every point , we can also write .


Let be a vector space,MDLD/vector space and let denote an affine subspace.MDLD/affine subspace (translated) Show that is a linear subspaceMDLD/linear subspace of if and only if contains .


Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting pointMDLD/starting point and a translation space.MDLD/translation space


Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting pointMDLD/starting point and a translating space.MDLD/translating space


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

Determine all points in .


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

for , is an affine subspaceMDLD/affine subspace (translated) of . What is the corresponding linear subspace? What can we say about the dimensionMDLD/dimension (affine space) of , when is empty?


===Exercise Exercise 29.10

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

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


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


Let be a nonempty affine space over a -vector spaceMDLD/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 subspaceMDLD/affine subspace of , with translation space .


b) Show that

holds for all .


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

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


===Exercise Exercise 29.14

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

defines a unique point in .


===Exercise * Exercise 29.15

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Let be a point in an affine spaceMDLD/affine space over . Show that the following expressions are barycentric combinationsMDLD/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,MDLD/vector space which we consider as an affine spaceMDLD/affine space over itself. Let be points. Show .


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

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


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


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


===Exercise Exercise 29.20

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

with for each , be a family of barycentric combinationsMDLD/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 basisMDLD/affine basis of the space.


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




Hand-in-exercises

Let

Determine, for the set

a description using a starting pointMDLD/starting point and a translating space.MDLD/translating space


Let be a -vector space.MDLD/vector space We consider the set

which is an affine spaceMDLD/affine space over .

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


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


Let and be affine spacesMDLD/affine spaces over the fieldMDLD/field . Show that the product spaceMDLD/product space (set finite) is also an affine space.


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

is an affine basis of the product space .



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