Subspaces
[27/78%]Determine whether each of the following collections of vectors is a subspace of the corresponding vector space:
the vectors of a plane with origin whose endpoints lie on one of two lines intersecting at the point ;
the vectors of a plane with origin whose endpoints lie on a given line;
the vectors of a plane with origin whose endpoints do not lie on a given line;
the vectors of the coordinate plane whose endpoints lie in the first quadrant;
the vectors of the space whose coordinates are integers;
the vectors of the arithmetic space , a field, that are solutions of a given system of linear equations;
the vectors of a linear space that are linear combinations of given vectors ;
bounded sequences of complex numbers;
sequences of real numbers that have a limit;
sequences of real numbers having limit ;
sequences of elements of the field satisfying the recurrence relation
where is a fixed sequence of elements of the field , is a fixed natural number, ;
polynomials of even degree with coefficients from the field ;
polynomials with coefficients from the field containing no even powers of the variable ;
sets from the space (see 4.9) consisting of an even number of elements;
sets from consisting of an odd number of elements.
Prove that the following collections of vectors of the space , a field, form subspaces, and find their bases and dimensions:
the vectors whose first and last coordinates coincide;
the vectors whose coordinates with even indices equal 0;
the vectors whose coordinates with even indices are all equal to one another;
vectors of the form ;
the vectors that are solutions of a homogeneous system of equations.
Determine which of the following collections of matrices of order over the field form subspaces of the space of matrices ; find their bases and dimensions:
all matrices;
symmetric matrices;
skew-symmetric matrices;
nonsingular matrices;
singular matrices;
matrices with trace equal to zero;
matrices that commute with a given set of matrices (when computing the basis and dimension, assume that the given set of matrices consists of a single diagonal matrix with distinct diagonal entries);
matrices satisfying the condition , where is a given collection of matrices.
Let be the space of all functions defined on the set and taking real values. Determine which of the following collections of functions form a subspace:
the functions taking the value at a given point ;
the functions taking the value at all points of some subset ;
the functions vanishing at at least one point of ;
the functions having limit as (for );
the functions having at most a finite number of discontinuities (for ).
Let be the space of infinite sequences with entries from the field . Determine which of the following collections of sequences form a subspace of :
sequences in which only finitely many entries are nonzero;
sequences in which only finitely many entries equal zero;
sequences in which all entries differ from 1.
Prove that in the spaces and the following collections form subspaces:
sequences satisfying the Cauchy condition: for every there is a number such that for all the inequality holds;
sequences satisfying the Hilbert condition: the series converges;
sequences of polynomial growth, i.e., , where are natural numbers depending on the sequence;
sequences of exponential growth, i.e., , where is a positive real number depending on the sequence.
Determine which of the following collections of polynomials form subspaces of the space (see 34.12), and find their bases and dimensions:
polynomials having a given root ;
polynomials having a given root ;
polynomials having given roots ;
polynomials having a given simple root .
Prove that if a subspace of the vector space (see 34.12) contains, for every , at least one polynomial of degree and contains no polynomials of degree , then it coincides with .
Let be the space of polynomials in the variables . Find:
the dimension of the subspace of all homogeneous polynomials of degree ;
the dimension of its subspace consisting of all polynomials of degree .
Let be an -dimensional vector space over a field consisting of elements. Find:
the number of vectors in the space ;
the number of bases of the space ;
the number of nonsingular matrices of order over the field ;
the number of singular matrices of order over the field ;
the number of -dimensional subspaces of the space ;
the number of solutions of the equation , where is a rectangular matrix of rank , and is a column of unknowns.
Find a basis and the dimension of the linear span of the following system of vectors:
,
, .
Let and be subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space . Prove that:
if , then , with equality only when ;
if , then the sum equals one of these subspaces, and the intersection equals the other;
if , then .
Let be subspaces of a vector space.
Is it true that ?
Prove that the preceding equality holds if .
Prove that .
Prove that .
Prove that and that the difference of the dimensions of these subspaces is an even number.
Find the dimensions of the sum and the intersection of the linear spans of the systems of vectors of the space :
,
,
, .
Find bases of the sum and the intersection of the linear spans and :
, ,
, , ;
, ,
,
, . ,
Find a system of linear equations defining the following system of vectors:
;
.
Let be subspaces of a vector space. Prove that:
the sum of these subspaces is direct if and only if at least one of its vectors is uniquely representable in the form
the condition for any distinct and from 1 to is not sufficient for the sum of these subspaces to be direct.
Let the subspaces be given by the equations
Prove that , and find the projections of the unit vectors onto along and onto along .
Let in the space
Prove that , and find the projection of the vector onto the subspace along .
Prove that for any subspace there exists a subspace such that .
Prove that the space of matrices is the direct sum of the subspace of symmetric matrices and the subspace of skew-symmetric matrices, and find the projections of the matrix
onto each of these subspaces along the other subspace.
Let be the subspace of skew-symmetric matrices and the subspace of upper triangular matrices in .
Prove that .
Find the projection of the matrices onto and .
Let be the subspace of symmetric matrices and the subspace of strictly upper triangular matrices in .
Prove that .
Find the projection of the matrix onto and .
Let be a field of elements, and let be a subspace of dimension in a space of dimension . Find the number of subspaces in such that .
Let be a linear space over an infinite field and let be subspaces of such that . Prove that for some .
Let be a linear space over the field , and let be subspaces of such that . Prove that or .
Give an example of a space over a finite field such that , where are proper subspaces of .