IIT Kharagpur

MA20107, Autumn 2014 (Matrix Algebra)

Department of Mathematics

Assignment 3, hand in on Monday 29th September.

Please deliver it to my office in Mathematics (N324) by 6 p.m. on that day. PLEASE
SHOW YOUR WORKING.
1 . (a) If A is a linear transformation on a finite dimensional vector space, does there
always exist a non-zero polynomial p such that p(A) = 0?
(b) If x0 is a vector in a vector space V , and y0 is a linear functional on V , and if Ax
is defined for every x in V by Ax = y0 (x)x0 , then A is a linear transformation on
V ; what is the smallest possible degree of a polynomial p such that p(A) = 0?
2. Determine the linear mapping T : R3 R3 that maps the basis vectors
(2, 1, 1), (1, 2, 1), (1, 1, 2) of R3 to the vectors (1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 1) respectively.
Find ker(T ) and Im(T ). Verify that dim ker(T ) + dim Im(T ) = 3.
3 . Prove that there does not exist a linear map from F 5 to F 2 whose null space equals
{(x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 ) F 5 | x1 = 3x2 and x3 = x4 = x5 }.
4 . Does there exist a linear transformation on a finite dimensional vector space with an
eigen value whose algebraic multiplicity is less than its geometric multiplicity?
5. Show that if be an eigen value of a non-singular matrix A, then 1 is an eigen
value of A1 .
6 . Find
the eigen
valuesand the
2 0 0
1 1

(i) 0 3 0 , (ii) 2 2
0 0 5
3 3

corresponding

2
2

4 , (iii) 1
6
1

eigenvectors of the following matrices:

2 1
3 1.
2 2

1 0 0
7. Use Cayley-Hamilton theorem to find A100 , where A = 1 0 1.
0 1 0

2 1 1
8. Find a matrix P such that P 1 AP is a diagonal matrix, where A = 1 2 1.
1 1 2

9 .
Find an orthogonal
matrix P such that P 1 AP is a diagonal matrix, where A =

3 1 1
1 3 1.
1 1 3

10 . Let T : R3 R3 be defined by T (x, y, z) = (2x + y 2z, 2x + 3y 4z, x + y z).

Find all eigen values of T , and find a basis of each eigen space. Is T diagonalizable?
If so, find the basis S of R3 that diagonalizes T , and find its diagonal representation
D.
11 . If S be a real skew symmetric matrix of order n prove that:
(i) (In + S) is non-singular.
(ii) (In + S)1 (In S) is orthogonal.
(iii) If X be an eigen vector of S with eigen value then X is also an eigen vector
1
.
of the matrix (In + S)1 (In S) with eigen value 1+
is also non-singular and S = S.
(iv) If S = (I + S)1 (I S), then (I + S)
n

12 . A is a 3 3 real matrix having the eigen values

5, 2,
2. The eigen vectors
of
1
1

A corresponding to the eigen values 5 and 2 are c 1 , c 6= 0 and c 0 +

1
1

0

d 1 , (c, d) 6= (0, 0) respectively. Find the matrix A.

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