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Exercise-Linear Maps

The document contains an exercise sheet on linear maps with 7 problems: 1) Determine which of several maps are linear 2) Find the transformation of various inputs under a linear map T 3) Find the matrix representation of several linear maps 4) Find the range and kernel of various linear maps 5) Show that a map L taking the average of a matrix and its transpose is linear and describe its kernel and image 6) Compute compositions of various linear maps 7) Prove that if vectors are linearly independent, their images under a linear map are also linearly independent 8) State the dimension theorem for linear maps relating the dimensions of the domain, kernel, and image

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Exercise-Linear Maps

The document contains an exercise sheet on linear maps with 7 problems: 1) Determine which of several maps are linear 2) Find the transformation of various inputs under a linear map T 3) Find the matrix representation of several linear maps 4) Find the range and kernel of various linear maps 5) Show that a map L taking the average of a matrix and its transpose is linear and describe its kernel and image 6) Compute compositions of various linear maps 7) Prove that if vectors are linearly independent, their images under a linear map are also linearly independent 8) State the dimension theorem for linear maps relating the dimensions of the domain, kernel, and image

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Exercise Sheet: Linear Maps

1. Determine which of the following maps L are linear.

(a) L : R3 → R2 defined by L(x, y, z) = (3x − 2y + z, 3x − 2y).


(b) L : R3 → R3 defined by L(x, y, z) = (x, y − 1, z).
(c) L : R2 → R defined by L(x, y) = xy.
(d) L : R2 → R2 defined by L(x, y) = (x, −y) (the reflection by x-
axis).
(e) L : R2 → R defined by L(x, y) = max{x, y}.
(f) L : R2 → R2 defined by L(x, y) = (0, 1).
(g) L : Mm×n → Mn×m defined by L(A) = AT .

2. Suppose a linear T transforms (1, 1) to (2, 2) and (2, 0) to (0, 0).

(a) Find T (2, 2).


(b) Find T (3, 1).
(c) Find the matrix representation for T with respect to the standard
basis of R2 .
(d) v = (a, b), for a, b ∈ R.
(e) Find T 2 (2, 2).

3. Find the matrix representation with respect to standard bases for the
following linear maps

(a) the projection from the space R3 onto the x − y plane.


(b) the reflection from the space R3 through the x − y plane.
(c) L : R2 → R3 such that L(x, y) = (2x − y, 3x + 4y, x − 5y).
(d) the ϕ-rotation from R2 to itself.

4. Find the range and kernel of T :

(a) T : R2 → R2 defined by T (v1 , v2 ) = (v2 , v1 );


(b) T : R3 → R2 defined by T (v1 , v2 , v3 ) = (v1 , v2 ) (the projection);
(c) T : R2 → R2 defined by T (v1 , v2 ) = (0, 0);
(d) T : R2 → R2 defined by T (v1 , v2 ) = (v1 , v1 );
(e) T : R2 → R3 defined by T (x, y) = (2x − y, 3x + 4y, x − 5y).

1
A−AT
5. Let L : Mn×n → Mn×n be the map such that L(A) = 2
.

(a) Show that L is linear.


(b) Describe the kernel of L, and determine its dimension.
(c) What is the image of L?

6. For the following transformations from R2 to R2 . Find T (T (v))

(a) T (v) = −v;


(b) T (v) = v + (1, 1);
(c) T (v) = 90o rotation = (−v2 , v1 );

7. Let L : V → W be a linear map such that ker(L) = {0}. Show that if


v1 , v2 , . . . , vn are linearly independent of V , then L(v1 ), L(v2 ), . . . , L(vn )
are linearly independent elements of W .

8. Let L : V → W be a linear map on finite dimensional spaces V and


W . Then,
dim V = dim Ker(L) + dim Im(L).

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