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Endomorphism/Eigenspaces are linear subspaces/Zero/Fact

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Let K be a field, V a K-vector space and

φ:VV

a linear mapping. Then the following statements hold.

  1. Every eigenspace
    Eigλ(φ)

    is a linear subspace of V.

  2. λ is an eigenvalue for φ, if and only if the eigenspace Eigλ(φ) is not the null space.
  3. A vector vV,v0, is an eigenvector for λ, if and only if vEigλ(φ).