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1 Math Practice Final Solutions December 9, 04 me at with any typos.. True or False. (a) If B is a 6 6 matrix with characteristic polynomial λ (λ ) (λ + ), then rank(b) is at least. True. The factors (λ ) (λ + ) indicate that the direct sum U of the generalized eigenspaces corresponding to and has dimension. Since 0 is not an eigenvalue of B U, we get that B acts invertibly on U, so U range B. (Or) Write B in Jordan normal form (taking it to be a linear operator on C 6 ). After permuting the blocks, we have B = The first three columns lie in the range of B and are clearly linearly independent. (b) If D and E are matrices satisfying DE = ED and D is diagonalizable (over the complex numbers), then E must be also diagonalizable (over the complex numbers). False. Take D to be the identity and E to be the nondiagonalizable matrix ( ) 0 E =. 0 0 (c) Let T : V V be a linear operator. If the characteristic polynomial of T is equal to the minimal polynomial of T, then T is diagonalizable. False. The matrix E above has characteristic and minimal polynomials both λ, but it is not diagonalizable.

2 r. Find a matrix D : R R whose null space consists of all vectors of the form r, r s + t and whose range consists of all vectors of the form s t (Here r, s, t are arbitrary real t numbers.) One possible answer: D = 0, 0 an operator on R. It is clear that D sends (s, t, 0) to (s + t, s t, t) and (r, r, r) to zero; by Rank-Nullity, neither the range nor the null space is any larger.. One of the ways we defined the determinant of a matrix was as the unique function from Mat n n (F ) F that satisfies three properties. List those properties. It is linear in each column; If any two columns are equal, the determinant is zero. (Equivalently, if any two adjacent columns are equal, the determinant is zero.) The determinant of the identity matrix is. 4. Define the following: Vector space A vector space over a field F is a set V together with two operations + : V V V and : F V V satisfying the following conditions (where a, b F and u, v, w V ): () u + v = v + u; () u + (v + w) = (u + v) + w; () There is an element 0 V such that u + 0 = u for all u V ; (4) For each u V, there is an element u V such that u + ( u) = 0; () (ab)u = a(bu); (6) u = u; (7) a(u + v) = au + av; (8) (a + b)u = au + bu. Direct sum

3 A vector space V is the direct sum of subspaces U, U,..., U n if every vector in V can be written uniquely as a sum u + u + + u n with u i U i.. Fix a field F and let V be a vector space over F and T L(V, V ) a linear operator. Fix two elements a, b F. Prove that (T ai) commutes with (T bi). We have (T ai)(t bi) = T T T bi ai T ai bi = T bt at + abi = T at bt + bai = T T T ai bi T bi ai = (T bi)(t ai). 6. Suppose A Mat 7 7 (C) is a matrix with characteristic polynomial p(z) = (z ) (z ) (z 4). Suppose as well that dim(null(a I)) =, dim(null(a I)) =, and dim(null(a 4I)) =. Find a matrix which is the Jordan canonical form of A. Is the matrix you found unique? The datum dim null(a λi) tells us the number of linearly independent eigenvectors corresponding to λ, which equals the number of Jordan blocks with eigenvalue λ. Also, the multiplicities (the exponents in p(z)) show the total number of appearances of each λ on the diagonal. Consequently we must have for λ =, one block of size ; for λ =, two blocks of total size ; for λ = 4, one block of size. So we can construct the Jordan form: It is unique up to permuting the blocks. ( ) 9 k 7. Consider B =, where k is a real number. k (a) For which values of k is B invertible?

4 Determinants to the rescue! det B = 9 k = (k + )(k ). Thus B is invertible for all k except ±. (b) For which values of k is B diagonalizable? All k; see proof after part (c). (c) Find the eigenvalues of the matrix B. Your answer should be in terms of k. The characteristic polynomial is det(λi B) = (λ )(λ 9) k = (λ ) 6 k. Thus the eigenvalues are λ = ± k + 6. Notice that k + 6 > 0 for all real k. Therefore, the eigenvalues are always distinct, and B is always diagonalizable. 8. Let T be a linear operator over C with characteristic polynomial (z λ ) (z λ n ), and let f(z) be a polynomial. Prove that the characteristic polynomial of f(t ) is (z f(λ )) (z f(λ n )). Write T in upper triangular form (e.g. Jordan normal form). Then the diagonal entries are the eigenvalues repeated according to multiplicity, and WLOG we may take them to be λ,..., λ n in order: λ T = λ n By matrix multiplication, T i = λ i... 0 λ i n so p(t ) = p(λ )... 0 p(λ n ) simply by taking a linear combination. Consequently, the characteristic polynomial of p(t ) is (z p(λ )) (z p(λ n )). 9. Let A be the following matrix: A = 0 0 Find the determinant, rank, characteristic polynomial, the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of A. Find an invertible matrix Q such that D = Q AQ is diagonal. Compute D. 4

5 to solve. Note: a typo in the original formulation made the problem impractical The rank is, since the first two columns are linearly independent and the third is minus their sum. Since A is not invertible, its determinant is therefore 0. Next we find the characteristic polynomial: t 0 p(t) = det t 0 t = (t )(t )(t ) (t ) (t ) = (t )(t t) = t(t )(t ). Thus 0,, and are eigenvalues, each with multiplicity. The corresponding eigenvectors are not hard to discover: for 0, 0 for, for. Consequently, the change-of-basis matrix Q = 0 yields a diagonal form D = Q AQ = Consider the linear transformation T : R[x] R[x] given by T (f)(x) = f(x) + f( x). Describe the null space of T and the range of T as subspaces of R[x]. Padding with a zero term if necessary, we can write any polynomial f as f(x) = a 0 + a x + + a m+ x m+. We then compute T (f)(x) = (a 0 + a x + + a m x m + a m+ x m+ ) + (a 0 a x + + a m x m a m+ x m+ ) We then see that = (a 0 + a x + + a m x m. (a) The null space of T is the set of all polynomials a x+a x + a m+ x m+ that involve only odd powers of x. (b) The range of T is the set of all polynomials a 0 + a x + + a m x m that involve only even powers of x (as the factor of can be disregarded without affecting the range).. The Fibonacci sequence is defined by the recursive formula a =, a =, and a n = a n + a n for all n. Compute a non-recursive formula for a n as a function of n. Hint: use diagonalization to compute A n for a suitable matrix A.

6 Observing that ( ) ( ) ( ) Fn+ Fn =, F n 0 F n ( ) we set about diagonalizing the matrix A =. First note that the characteristic polynomial is λ λ, so the eigenvalues 0 are ϕ = + and ϕ =. Each has multiplicity ; it is easy to compute that the respective eigenvectors are ( ) ϕ v = and v = ( ϕ ). To compute F n, we may apply A n to the vector ( ) F = e. Thye computation of A n e using the eigenbasis runs through the following steps: () Convert e to the eigenbasis. We have v v = (ϕ ϕ)e = e so F 0 e = v v () Apply A n. Since v and v are eigenvectors, we get A n e = ϕn v ϕ n v. () Convert back to the standard basis. We get ( ) ( ) ( ) Fn+ = A n e = ϕn ϕ ϕn ϕ, F n of which we are interested only in the second coordinate ( + ) n ( ) n F n = ϕn ϕ n =. This is the usual explicit formula for Fibonacci numbers.. C can be considered as a vector space over C and over R. (a) What is the dimension of C when considered a vector space over C? Over R? C is one-dimensional over C and two-dimensional over R. (b) Prove that S : C C given by S(z) = z is additive but not C-linear. Show that it is R-linear and compute its matrix with respect to the ordered basis {, i}. 6

7 If z = a + bi and w = c + di, then z + w = (a + c) + (b + d)i = (a + c) (b + d)i = (a bi) + (c di) = (z) (w). Thus S is additive. For S to be C-linear, we would need zw = z w, which is not true (take z = i and w = ). However, S is R-linear since, for c R and z = a + bi C, cz = ca + cbi = ca cbi = c(a bi) = c z. S sends the basis {, i} to {, i} and thus has the matrix form ( ) 0 0 7

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