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Mathematics for Applied Sciences (Osnabrück 2023-2024)/Part I/Exercise sheet 22

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Exercises

Compute the following product of matrices


Compute, over the complex numbers, the following product of matrices


Determine the product of matrices

where the -th standard vector (of length ) is considered as a row vector, and the -th standard vector (also of length ) is considered as a column vector.


Let be an - matrix. Show that the matrix product of with the -th standard vector (regarded as a column vector) is the -th column of . What is , where is the -th standard vector (regarded as a row vector)?


Let

be a diagonal matrix, and an -matrix. Describe and .


Let

be a diagonal matrix, and let be an -tuple over a field , and let be a tuple of variables. What is specific about the system of linear equations

and how can you solve it?


Compute the product of matrices

according to the two possible parentheses.


For the following statement we will get soon a simpler proof via the relation between matrices and linear mappings.

Show that the multiplication of matrices is associative. More precisely: Let be a field, and let be an -matrix, an -matrix, and a -matrix over . Show that .


Show that the matrix multiplication of square matrices is, in general, not commutative.


For a matrix , we denote by the -th fold composition (matrix multiplication) of with itself. is called the -th power of the matrix.

Compute, for the matrix

the powers


Out of the resources , and , several commodities are produced. The following table shows how much of the resources are needed to produce the commodities (always in suitable units).


a) Establish a matrix that computes, applied to a four-tuple of commodities, the required resources.


b) The following table shows how much of each commodity shall be produced in a month.

What resources are necessary?


c) The following table shows how much of each resource is delivered on a certain day.

What tuples of commodities can be produced from this without waste?


Determine (approximately) the coordinates of the sketched point (the side length of a box represents a unit).


Draw the following points in the Cartesian plane .


Let a point be given in the plane . Sketch the points


Let a point be given in the plane . Sketch the set of all points


Draw two points and in the Cartesian plane and add them.


Show that the product space , for a field , is, with componentwise addition and scalar multiplication, the properties

  1. ,
  2. ,
  3. ,

hold.


Let be a field, and let and be vector spaces over . Show that the product set

is also a -vector space.


Let be a vector space over a field . Let and . Show


Show that the addition and the scalar multiplication of a vector space can be restricted to a linear subspace, and that this subspace with the inherited structures of is a vector space itself.


Check whether the following subsets of are linear subspaces:

  1. ,
  2. ,
  3. ,
  4. .


Let be a field, and let

be a system of linear equations over . Show that the set of all solutions of this system is a linear subspace of . How is this solution space related to the solution spaces of the individual equations?


Let be the set of all real -matrices

which fulfill the condition

Show that is not a linear subspace in the space of all -matrices.


Let be a field, and let be a -vector space. Let be linear subspaces of . Prove that the union is a linear subspace of if and only if or .


Let be a field, and an index set. Show that

with pointwise addition and scalar multiplication, is a -vector space.


Let

be the set of all real Cauchy sequences. Show that is a linear subspace of the space of all sequences


Show that the subset

is a linear subspace.


Show that the subset

is a linear subspace.


Show that the subset

is not a linear subspace.




Hand-in-exercises

Exercise (3 marks)

Compute, over the complex numbers, the following product of matrices


Exercise (3 marks)

We consider the matrix

over a field . Show that the fourth power of is , that is,


Exercise (4 marks)

Let . Find and prove a formula for the -th power of the matrix


Exercise (2 marks)

Find, appart from the matrices and , four more matrices fulfilling the property .


Exercise (3 marks)

Let be a field, and let be a -vector space. Show that the following properties hold (for and ).

  1. We have .
  2. We have .
  3. We have .
  4. If and , then .


Exercise (3 marks)

Give an example of a vector space and of three subsets of that satisfy two of the subspace axioms, but not the third.



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