In Exercises 19-24, justify each answer or construction.

If the subspace of all solutions of \(A{\bf{x}} = {\bf{0}}\) has a basis consisting three vectors and if A is a \({\bf{5}} \times {\bf{7}}\) matrix, what is the rank of A.

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The dimension of A is 4.

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01

Find the dimension of Nul A

As the solution space of \(A{\bf{x}} = 0\) has three column vectors, the dimension of Nul A is 3.

02

Find the rank A

The number of columns in matrix A is 7. So, according to the rank theorem,

\(\begin{array}{c}{\rm{rank}}\;A = 7 - 3\\ = 4.\end{array}\)

So, the dimension of A is 4.

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If Ais an \(n \times n\) matrix and the equation \(A{\bf{x}} = {\bf{b}}\) has more than one solution for some b, then the transformation \({\bf{x}}| \to A{\bf{x}}\) is not one-to-one. What else can you say about this transformation? Justify your answer.

Suppose \({A_{{\bf{11}}}}\) is invertible. Find \(X\) and \(Y\) such that

\[\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{{A_{{\bf{11}}}}}&{{A_{{\bf{12}}}}}\\{{A_{{\bf{21}}}}}&{{A_{{\bf{22}}}}}\end{array}} \right] = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}I&{\bf{0}}\\X&I\end{array}} \right]\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{{A_{{\bf{11}}}}}&{\bf{0}}\\{\bf{0}}&S\end{array}} \right]\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}I&Y\\{\bf{0}}&I\end{array}} \right]\]

Where \(S = {A_{{\bf{22}}}} - {A_{21}}A_{{\bf{11}}}^{ - {\bf{1}}}{A_{{\bf{12}}}}\). The matrix \(S\) is called the Schur complement of \({A_{{\bf{11}}}}\). Likewise, if \({A_{{\bf{22}}}}\) is invertible, the matrix \({A_{{\bf{11}}}} - {A_{{\bf{12}}}}A_{{\bf{22}}}^{ - {\bf{1}}}{A_{{\bf{21}}}}\) is called the Schur complement of \({A_{{\bf{22}}}}\). Such expressions occur frequently in the theory of systems engineering, and elsewhere.

Let \(A = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{\bf{1}}&{\bf{2}}\\{\bf{5}}&{{\bf{12}}}\end{aligned}} \right),{b_{\bf{1}}} = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{ - {\bf{1}}}\\{\bf{3}}\end{aligned}} \right),{b_{\bf{2}}} = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{\bf{1}}\\{ - {\bf{5}}}\end{aligned}} \right),{b_{\bf{3}}} = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{\bf{2}}\\{\bf{6}}\end{aligned}} \right),\) and \({b_{\bf{4}}} = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{\bf{3}}\\{\bf{5}}\end{aligned}} \right)\).

  1. Find \({A^{ - {\bf{1}}}}\), and use it to solve the four equations \(Ax = {b_{\bf{1}}},\)\(Ax = {b_2},\)\(Ax = {b_{\bf{3}}},\)\(Ax = {b_{\bf{4}}}\)\(\)
  2. The four equations in part (a) can be solved by the same set of row operations, since the coefficient matrix is the same in each case. Solve the four equations in part (a) by row reducing the augmented matrix \(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}A&{{b_{\bf{1}}}}&{{b_{\bf{2}}}}&{{b_{\bf{3}}}}&{{b_{\bf{4}}}}\end{aligned}} \right)\).

How many rows does \(B\) have if \(BC\) is a \({\bf{3}} \times {\bf{4}}\) matrix?

Suppose Aand Bare \(n \times n\), Bis invertible, and ABis invertible. Show that Ais invertible. (Hint: Let C=AB, and solve this equation for A.)

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