MA22020: Exercise sheet 2

    Warmup questions

  • 1. Let \(U_1,U_2,U_3\leq \R ^3\) be the \(1\)-dimensional subspaces spanned by \((1,2,0)\), \((1,1,1)\) and \((2,3,1)\) respectively.

    Which of the following sums are direct?

    • (a) \(U_i+U_j\), for \(1\leq i<j\leq 3\).

    • (b) \(U_1+U_2+U_3\).

  • 2. Let \(V_i\leq V\), for \(\bw 1ik\). Prove the converse of Corollary 2.8: if

    \begin{equation*} \dim \plst {V}1k=\plst {\dim V}1k \end{equation*}

    then the sum \(\plst {V}1k\) is direct.

  • 3. Let \(U\leq V\). Show that congruence modulo \(U\) is an equivalence relation.

  • 4. Let \(U=\Span {(1,-1,0),(0,1,-1)}\leq \R ^{3}\). Determine which, if any, of the following cosets are equal:

    \begin{equation*} (1,2,3)+U,\qquad (3,3,0)+U,\qquad (1,1,1)+U. \end{equation*}

  • 5. Let \(U\leq V\) and \(q:V\to V/U\) the quotient map. Let \(W\) be a complement to \(U\).

    Show that \(q_{|W}:W\to V/U\) is an isomorphism.

    Homework

  • 6. Let \(V\) be a vector space. A linear map \(\pi :V\to V\) is called a projection if \(\pi \circ \pi =\pi \).

    In this case, prove that \(\ker \pi \cap \im \pi =\set {0}\) and deduce that \(V=\ker \pi \oplus \im \pi \).

  • 7. Let \(U,W\leq V\). Define a linear map \(\phi :U\to (U+W)/W\) by \(\phi (u)=u+W\).

    • (a) Use the first isomorphism theorem, applied to \(\phi \), to prove the second isomorphism theorem:

      \begin{equation*} U/(U\cap W)\cong (U+W)/W. \end{equation*}

    • (b) Deduce that, when \(V\) is finite-dimensional,

      \begin{equation*} \dim (U+W)=\dim U+\dim W-\dim (U\cap W). \end{equation*}

Please hand in at 4W level 1 by NOON on Thursday 31st October 2024