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    University of Toronto FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FINAL EXAMINATIONS, DECEMBER 2007 MAT 240H1F - ALGEBRA I Instructor: F. Murnaghan Duration - 3 hours ‘Total marks: 100 No calculators or other aids allowed. Notation: If m and n are positive integers, Mmxn(F) is the vector space of m xn matrices with entries in the field F. P(F) is the vector space of polynomials in one variable with coefficients in the field F’. If nis a nonnegative integer, P,(F) is the subspace of P(F) consisting of polynomials of degree at: most n. If V and W are vector spaces over a field F, £(V,W) denotes the vector space of linear transformations from V to W. If V = W, L(V) = L(V,V). [11] 1. Ineach case below, determine whether the subset W of the vector space V is a subspace of V. If W is a subspace of V, prove it. If not, demonstrate how one of the properties of subspace fails to hold. a) Let n> 3 and let V=R". Let W = { 2 = (a1, 02, 49,--., an) € R® | V3a1 — daz = 214 } b) Let V = £(Q4). (Here, Q is the field of rational numbers.) Let W = {TeV =L(Q)| {(1,0,1,0), (0,1,0,-1) } c N(Z) }. [10] 2. Tn each case below, determine whether the function T is a linear transformation. a) Let F bea field. Define T: P(F) + Max2(F) by TUf(2)) = Ge a) | for f (2) = ant" +0q—y2""!4+- bag € PCF). b) Suppose that m and n are positive integers. Let V be a vector space of dimension rn (over a field F) and let W be a vector space of dimension m (also over the field F). Let B be an ordered basis of V and let -y be an ordered basis of W. Suppose that U € L(V,W) and A € Mmxn(F). Define T : V > F™ by T() = Alz|a—(U(z)ly, te. [5] 3. Let A, BC Maxa(F), where n > 2 and F is a field. Suppose that A is similar to B and A? = —A. Prove that B® = —B. Page 1 of 2 [20] 4. Determine whether or not V and W are isomorphic vector spaces. (Justify your answers.) a) Let V = £(P2(C), Maxa(C)) and W = £(Maxs(C),C?). b) Let V = {2 = (a1, a2, a5, a4) €R* | a +a3=0} and W = {x= (a1, a2, as, a4) € R* | a1 = a2 = a3} ©) Let Vo be an n-dimensional vector space over a field F, where n > 2. Let B= {21,...,2n} be an ordered basis of Vo. Define T € L(Y) | [Tp is a diagonal matrix. } W ={T L(V) | T(r) =T(#2) =--- = Ten) }- (Recall that A= (Ai) € Maxn(F) is a diagonal matrix if Ajj = 0 whenever i435. [18] 5. Let V be a vector space over a field F. Let T € £(V). (or parts a) and b), do not assume that V is finite-dimensional.) a) Prove that T? = —T if and only if T(x) = - for all x € R(T). b) Suppose that T? = —T. Prove that N(T)N R(T) = {0}. ©) Assume that V is finite-dimensional. Prove that T? = —T if and only if there exists an ordered basis of V such that me=trig=(“" 0) where r= rank(T), J, is the r x r identity matrix, and each 0 is a zero matrix of the appropriate size. [8] 6. Let AG Maxn(F), where n > 2 and Fis a field. Let At € Maxn(F) be the transpose of A. (Recall that A‘ is obtained from A by interchanging the rows and columns of A: the jth column of A* is equal to the jth row of A, 1< j

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