Linear algebra (Osnabrück 2024-2025)/Part I/Exercise sheet 8



Exercise for the break

Determine the dimension of the space of all -matrices.




Exercises

Determine the dimension of the solution space of the linear system

and

in the variables .


Let be a field, and . Show that the set of all diagonal matrices is a linear subspace in the space of all -matrices over , and determine its dimension.


An -matrix

is called symmetric if

holds for all .

Show that the set of all symmetric -matrices is a linear subspace in the space of all -matrices, and determine its dimension.


Let be a field, and . Show that the set of all upper triangular matrices is a linear subspace in the space of all -matrices over , and determine its dimension.


Let be a field, and let be a -vector space of dimension . Suppose that vectors in are given. Prove that the following facts are equivalent.

  1. form a basis for .
  2. form a system of generators for .
  3. are linearly independent.


Let be a field, and let be a -vector space of finite dimension. Let denote a linear subspace with . Show that holds.


Let be real numbers. We consider the three vectors

Give examples for such that the linear subspace generated by these vectors has dimension .


Let be a field, and let and be two finite-dimensional -vector spaces with

and

What is the dimension of the Cartesian product ?


Let be an -dimensional -vector space ( a field), and let be linear subspaces of dimension and . Suppose that holds. Show that .


Let be a field, and let denote the polynomial ring over . Let . Show that the set of all polynomials of degree is a finite-dimensional linear subspace of . What is its dimension?


Show that the set of all real polynomials of degree that have a zero for and for , forms a finite-dimensional linear subspace in . Determine its dimension.


Let be a finite-dimensional vector space over the complex numbers, and let be a basis of . Prove that the family of vectors

forms a basis for , considered as a real vector space.


Consider the standard basis in and the three vectors

Prove that these vectors are linearly independent, and extend them to a basis by adding an appropriate standard vector, as shown in the base exchange theorem. Can one take any standard vector?


We consider the linear equations

over .

  1. Determine a basis of the solution space of this linear system.
  2. Extend the basis to a basis of the solution space of the linear system consisting of the first two equations.
  3. Extend the basis to a basis of the solution space of the linear system consisting of the first equation alone.
  4. Extend the basis to a basis of the total space .


We consider the last digit in the basic multiplication table as a family of -tuples of length , that is, the row vectors in the matrix

What is the dimension of the linear subspace in generated by these tuples?


Let be a field, and let be a -vector space. Show that can not have a finite basis and an infinite basis.


The magic square in Dürer's picture Melencolia I.


An -matrix over a field is called a magic square (or linear-magic square over ), when every column sum and every row sum in the matrix equals a certain number

.

In this sense, the matrix

is, for every , a magic square.

Show that the set of all linear-magic squares of length over a field is a linear subspace in the space of all -matrices.




Hand-in-exercises

Exercise (2 marks)

Let be a field, and let be a -vector space. Let be a family of vectors in , and let

be the linear subspace they span. Prove that the family is linearly independent if and only if the dimension of is exactly .


Exercise (4 (3+1) marks)


a) Determine the dimension of the solution space of the linear system

in the variables .


b) What is the dimension of the solution space if we consider the system in the variables ?


Exercise (4 marks)

Show that the set of all real polynomials of degree that have a zero at , at and at , is a finite-dimensional subspace of . Determine the dimension of this vector space.


Exercise (4 marks)

Let be a field, and . Determine the dimension of the space of all linear-magic squares of length over .


Exercise (7 (3+2+1+1) marks)

We consider the linear equations

over .

  1. Determine a basis of the solution space of this linear system.
  2. Extend the basis to a basis of the solution space of the linear system consisting of the first two equations.
  3. Extend the basis to a basis of the solution space of the linear system consisting of the first equation alone.
  4. Extend the basis to a basis of the total space .



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