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IMPA - 2016
INSTRUCTOR: EMANUEL CARNEIRO
Problem Set 1
Problem 1. Let T : R4 R3 be the linear map:
T (x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ) = (x1 + 2x2 x3 x4 , 2x1 + 4x2 + x3 + 10x4 , x1 + 2x2 + x3 + 7x4 ).
Find a basis for N (T ) and a basis for R(T ). What is the rank of T ?
Problem 2. Let P3 denote the real subspace of R[x] of polynomials of degree at
most 3. Let T : P3 P3 denote the linear transformation
T (p(x)) = xp0 (x) p(x).
Find a basis for N (T ) and a basis for R(T ). What is the rank of T ?
Problem 3. Let V be an n-dimensional vector space.
(i) Show that a proper subspace W of V is the intersection of all subspaces of
V of dimension n 1 which contain W .
(ii) Let L(V ) be the vector space of all linear transformations of V to itself.
For x 6= 0 in V , compute the dimension of Lx (V ) = {T L(V ); T (x) = 0}.
Problem 4. Let T and S be linear transformations from Rn to Rm . The coincidence set for T and S is defined to be the set C(T, S) = {w Rm ; T (x) = w =
S(y), for some x, y Rn }. Let T and S be the linear transformations from R4 to
R3 represented by the 3 4 matrices:
1 2 0 1
1 2 1 0
T = 5 4 1 0 and S = 1 0 3 2 .
3 0 1 2
1 4 11 6
Find a basis for C(T, S).
Problem 5. In the Euclidean space R4 consider the ellipsoid:
2x21 + 3x22 + 4x23 + 5x24 = 1.
Does there exist a 3-dimensional subspace of R4 which intersects the ellipsoid in a
sphere?
Date: 13 de janeiro de 2016.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. XX-XXX.
Key words and phrases. XXX-XXX.
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EMANUEL CARNEIRO