Essential Vocabulary
Coordinate vector
Let be a vector space, and let be a basis for . If , then the vector in whose components are the coefficients is said to be the coordinate vector for with respect to . We denote the coordinate vector by and write:
Finite-dimensional vector space
A vector space is said to be finite-dimensional if it is spanned by finitely many vectors.
Isomorphism
Let and be vector spaces. If there exists an invertible linear transformation we say that and are isomorphic and write . The invertible linear transformation is called an isomorphism.
Matrix of a linear transformation
Let and be finite-dimensional vector spaces with ordered bases and , respectively. Suppose is a linear transformation. Then for all vectors in .
Matrix is called the matrix of with respect to ordered bases and .
One-to-one linear transformation
A linear transformation is one-to-one if
Onto linear transformation
A linear transformation is onto if for every element of , there exists an element of such that .
Subspace
A nonempty subset of a vector space is called a subspace of , provided that is itself a vector space when given the same addition and scalar multiplication as .
Vector Space
Let be a nonempty set. Suppose that elements of can be added together and multiplied by scalars. The set , together with operations of addition and scalar multiplication, is called a vector space provided that
- is closed under addition
- is closed under scalar multiplication
and the following properties hold for , and in and scalars and :
- (a)
- Commutative Property of Addition:
- (b)
- Associative Property of Addition:
- (c)
- Existence of Additive Identity:
- (d)
- Existence of Additive Inverse:
- (e)
- Distributive Property over Vector Addition:
- (f)
- Distributive Property over Scalar Addition:
- (g)
- Associative Property for Scalar Multiplication:
- (h)
- Multiplication by :
We will refer to elements of as vectors.
Note that definitions of span, linear independence, basis, and dimension are analogous to those for subspaces of .
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