Paper 4, Section II, E

Linear Algebra
Part IB, 2015

Suppose UU and WW are subspaces of a vector space VV. Explain what is meant by UWU \cap W and U+WU+W and show that both of these are subspaces of VV.

Show that if UU and WW are subspaces of a finite dimensional space VV then

dimU+dimW=dim(UW)+dim(U+W)\operatorname{dim} U+\operatorname{dim} W=\operatorname{dim}(U \cap W)+\operatorname{dim}(U+W)

Determine the dimension of the subspace WW of R5\mathbb{R}^{5} spanned by the vectors

(13311),(41321),(32123),(22511)\left(\begin{array}{c} 1 \\ 3 \\ 3 \\ -1 \\ 1 \end{array}\right),\left(\begin{array}{l} 4 \\ 1 \\ 3 \\ 2 \\ 1 \end{array}\right),\left(\begin{array}{l} 3 \\ 2 \\ 1 \\ 2 \\ 3 \end{array}\right),\left(\begin{array}{c} 2 \\ 2 \\ 5 \\ -1 \\ -1 \end{array}\right)

Write down a 5×55 \times 5 matrix which defines a linear map R5R5\mathbb{R}^{5} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{5} with (1,1,1,1,1)T(1,1,1,1,1)^{T} in the kernel and with image WW.

What is the dimension of the space spanned by all linear maps R5R5\mathbb{R}^{5} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{5}

(i) with (1,1,1,1,1)T(1,1,1,1,1)^{T} in the kernel and with image contained in WW,

(ii) with (1,1,1,1,1)T(1,1,1,1,1)^{T} in the kernel or with image contained in WW ?