KFUPM - Department of Mathematical Sciences

Term 061 MATH 550

Final Exam (Due by January 22, 2007)

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Solve the following Exercises.

Exercise 1.
Let V be an n-dimensional (n ≥ 2) vector space over a field F and let N be a
nilpotent linear operator on V .
1-Find the minimal polynomial P and the characteristic polynomial f of N .
2-Under which condition P = f ?
3-Construct an n-dimensional vector space V and a nilpotent operator N on V such
that P = f .
4-Construct an n-dimensional vector space V and a nilpotent operator N on V such
that P 6= f .

Exercise 2.
Let V be an n-dimensional vector space over a field F and T a linear operator on
V that is diagonalizable. Prove that T has a cyclic vector if and only if T has n
distinct characteristic values.

Exercise 3.
Let V be an n-dimensional inner product space over a field F and let W be a
subspace of V . Define a linear operator on V as follows: Each x ∈ V is uniquely
expressible in the form x = y + z, where y ∈ W and z ∈ W ⊥ . Set UW (x) = y − z.
1-Prove that UW is both self-adjoint and unitary.
2-Prove that every self-adjoint unitary linear operator on V is of this form (i.e. each
linear operator that is self-adjoint and unitary on V is of the form UW for some W
to be determined).

Exercise 4.
3 1 −1
Let T be a linear operator on R3 and let A = 2 2 −1 its matrix in the stan-
2 2 0
dard basis.
Find the Jordan form of T .

Exercise 5.
Let V be an n-dimensional vector space over a field F and let S be the subspace
of L(V, V, F ) consisting of all symmetric bilinear forms.
1- Find dimS.
Let f be a symmetric bilinear form on V , W a subspace of V and W ⊥ = {x ∈
1
2

V /f (x, y) = 0, for each y ∈ W }.

1-Prove that V ⊥ = 0 if and only if f is non-degenerate.
2-Prove that Rankf = dimV − dimV ⊥ . L ⊥
3-Prove that the restriction f |W is non-degenerate if and only if W W =V.

Exercise 6. Exercise 17 page 290.

Exercise 7. Exercise 10 page 299.

Exercise 8. Exercise 9 page 310.

Exercise 9. Exercise 6 page 347.

Exercise 10. Exercise 7 page 373.