BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI
Second Semester 2022-23
MATH F112 (Mathematics-II)
Tutorial Sheet -2
Module-2 Vector Spaces
1. Let V = R2 with operations (x1 , y1 ) ⊕ (x2 , y2 ) = (x1 + x2 , y1 + y2 ) and c ⊙ v = c(Av), where
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Prove or disprove that (V, ⊕, ⊙) is a vector space.
2. Consider the set V = {[a, b, c] ∈ R3 : a, b ∈ R and c ∈ R+ }. Define vector addition ⊕ and
scalar multiplication ⊙ as
[a1 , b1 , c1 ] ⊕ [a2 , b2 , c2 ] = [a1 + a2 + 1, b1 + b2 − 2, c1 c2 ]
α ⊙ [a, b, c] = [αa + α − 1, αb − 2α + 2, cα ] for α ∈ R.
With respect to ⊕ and ⊙, defined above
(i) Find the additive identity of V .
(ii) Find the additive inverse of [a, b, c] ∈ V .
(iii) Check whether the distributive property α ⊙ (u ⊕ v) = α ⊙ u ⊕ α ⊙ v(α ∈ R, u, v ∈ V )
is satisfied or not.
3. Determine whether the following sets are subspaces of the vector space Mnn .
(a) W1 = {A ∈ Mnn : AT = −A}.
(b) W2 = {A ∈ Mnn : Ax = b has a unique solution for all b ∈ Rn }.
4. Suppose W1 = {f ∈ F (−∞, ∞) | f is even} and W2 = {f ∈ F (−∞, ∞) | f is odd} are
subspaces of the vector space V = F (−∞, ∞). Prove that V = W1 + W2 and W1 ∩ W2 = {0}.
5. Let V be a subspace R3 spanned by the set S = {(2, 1, −1), (0, −1, 2)} and W be a subspace
of R3 spanned by the set T = {(x, y, z)|x + y = 2, y + z = 1, x, y, z ∈ R}. Find the vectors
v ∈ V and w ∈ W such that v + w = (2, 4, 5).
6. Let x = (x1 , x2 ) and y = (y1 , y2 ) be vectors in R2 such that x21 + x22 = 1, y12 + y22 = 1 and
x1 y1 + x2 y2 = 0. Prove that S = {x, y} is linearly independent in R2 .
7. Show that the set
S = {sin(x), sin(2x), sin(3x), . . . , sin(nx)}
is a linearly independent subset of C[−π, π] (space of real valued continuous functions defined
on [−π, π] ) for every positive integer n.
8. Consider the vectors p1 = 1 + x + 4x2 and p2 = 1 + 5x + x2 in P2 . Determine whether p1 and
p2 lie in span {1 + 2x − x2 , 3 + 5x + 2x2 }.
9. Define S = {A = [aij ] ∈ M2×2 (R) : aij ∈ R+ } with vector addition ⊕ and scalar multiplication
⊙ as
A ⊕ B = {[aij bij ] : 1 ≤ i, j ≤ 2},
α ⊙ A = {[aαij ] : 1 ≤ i, j ≤ 2, α ∈ R}.
(a) Verify the distributive properties (i) (α + β) ⊙ A = α ⊙ A ⊕ β ⊙ A,
(ii) α ⊙ (A ⊕ B) = α ⊙ A ⊕ α ⊙ B (α, β ∈ R, A, B ∈ S).
(b) Find the additive inverse of [aij ] ∈ S.