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Exercise 1

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Decide if R2\mathbb{R}^{2} is the direct sum of each W1W_{1} and W2W_{2}.

  • W1={(x0)∣x∈R}W_{1}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}x\\ 0\end{pmatrix}\mid x\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}, W2={(xx)∣x∈R}W_{2}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}x\\ x\end{pmatrix}\mid x\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}

  • W1={(ss)∣s∈R}W_{1}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}s\\ s\end{pmatrix}\mid s\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}, W2={(s1.1s)∣s∈R}W_{2}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}s\\ 1.1s\end{pmatrix}\mid s\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}

  • W1=R2W_{1}=\mathbb{R}^{2}, W2={0⃗}W_{2}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\vec{0}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}

  • W1=W2={(tt)∣t∈R}W_{1}=W_{2}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}t\\ t\end{pmatrix}\mid t\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}

  • W1={(10)+(x0)∣x∈R}W_{1}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}1\\ 0\end{pmatrix}+\begin{pmatrix}x\\ 0\end{pmatrix}\mid x\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}, W2={(−10)+(0y)∣y∈R}W_{2}=\text{$\{\hskip 1.00006pt\begin{pmatrix}-1\\ 0\end{pmatrix}+\begin{pmatrix}0\\ y\end{pmatrix}\mid y\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\}$}

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Vector Spaces, Combining Subspaces, Exercise 1

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