Mathematics for Applied Sciences (Osnabrück 2011-2012)/Part I/Exercise sheet 4



Warm-up-exercises

Establish, for each  , whether the function

 

is injective and/or surjective.


Show that there exists a bijection between   and  .


Give examples of mappings

 

such that   is injective but not surjective, and   is surjective but not injective.


Let   and   be sets and let

 

be a function. Let

 

be another function such that   and  . Show that   is the inverse of  .


Determine the composite functions   and   for the functions  , defined by

 


Let   and   be sets and let

 
 

and

 

be functions. Show that

 


Let   be sets and let

 

be mappings with their composition

 

Show that if   is injective, then also   is injective.


Let

 

be functions, which are increasing or decreasing, and let   be their composition. Let   be the number of the decreasing functions among the  's. Show that if   is even, then   is increasing, and if   is odd, then   is decreasing.


Calculate in the polynomial ring   the product

 


Let   be a field and let   be the polynomial ring over  . Prove the following properties concerning the degree of a polynomial:

  1.  
  2.  


Show that in a polynomial ring over a field  , the following statement holds: if   are not zero, then also  .


Let   be a field and let   be the polynomial ring over  . Let  . Prove that the evaluating function

 

satisfies the following properties (here let  ).

  1.  
  2.  
  3.  


Evaluate the polynomial

 

replacing the variable   by the complex number  .


Perform, in the polynomial ring  , the division with remainder  , where  , and  .


Let   be a field and let   be the polynomial ring over  . Show that every polynomial  ,  , can be decomposed as a product

 

where   and   is a polynomial with no roots (no zeroes). Moreover, the different numbers   and the exponents   are uniquely determined apart from the order.


Let   be a non-constant polynomial. Prove that   can be decomposed as a product of linear factors.


Determine the smallest real number for which the Bernoulli inequality with exponent   holds.


Sketch the graph of the following rational functions

 

where each time   is the complement set of the set of the zeros of the denominator polynomial  .

  1.  ,
  2.  ,
  3.  ,
  4.  ,
  5.  ,
  6.  ,
  7.  .


Let   be a polynomial with real coefficients and let   be a root of  . Show that also the complex conjugate   is a root of  .




Hand-in-exercises

Exercise (3 marks)

Consider the set  , and the mapping

 

defined by the following table

                 
                 

Compute  , that is, the  -rd composition (or iteration) of   with itself.


Exercise (2 marks)

Prove that a strictly increasing function

 

is injective.


Exercise (3 marks)

Let   be sets, and let

 

be mappings with their composite mapping

 

Show that if   is surjective, then also   is surjective.


Exercise (3 marks)

Compute in the polynomial ring   the product

 


Exercise (4 marks)

Perform, in the polynomial ring  , the division with remainder  , where

 

and

 


Exercise (4 marks)

Let   be a non-constant polynomial with real coefficients. Prove that   can be written as a product of real polynomials of degrees   or  .