Complex conjugation and its properties
[9/33%]The number is real, is purely imaginary, is real and not negative.
Let be a root of a polynomial with real coefficients. Prove that , i.e., is also a root of the polynomial .
Suppose . Verify the following equalities and inequalities.
and
and
The results above are the parts of 4.4 that were left to the reader.
Suppose . Define by
Prove that is a polynomial with real coefficients.
Prove that:
a complex number is real if and only if ;
a complex number is purely imaginary if and only if .
Prove that:
the product of two complex numbers is real if and only if one of them differs from the conjugate of the other by a real factor;
the sum and the product of two complex numbers are both real if and only if the given numbers are either conjugate or both real.
Prove that if from given complex numbers , by applying finitely many operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, a number is obtained, then from the numbers , by applying the same operations, the number is obtained.
Prove that the determinant
where are complex numbers and are real numbers, is a purely imaginary number.
Let . Relying on Theorem 1, prove that (the bar denotes conjugation).