MA 106: Linear Algebra
Tutorial 4
Prof. B.V. Limaye
IIT Dharwad
Friday, 2 February 2018
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Tutorial 4 (on Lectures 10, 11, and 12)
1. Find all eigenvalues, and their geometric as well as
algebraic multiplicities of the following matrices. Are they
diagonalizable? If so, find invertible
[ P]such that P−1 AP
5 −1
is a diagonal matrix. (i) A := ,
1 3
3 2 1 0
0 1 0 2 1 0
1
(ii) A :=
0 2 −1 0 , (iii) A := 0 2 1 .
0 0 2
0 0 0 1/2
[ ]
cos θ − sin θ
2. Let θ ∈ (−π, π], and consider A := .
sin θ cos θ
Find an invertible matrix P such that P−1 AP is a
diagonal matrix. Verify your answer.
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1 ··· 1
3. Let A := ... ... ... ∈ Kn×n ,
1 ··· 1
that is, ajk = 1 for all j, k = 1, . . . , n. Find an eigenvector
of A by inspection, all eigenvalues of A, and also their
geometric and algebraic multiplicities. Find a basis for
each eigenspace of A. Show that A is diagonalizable, and
find an invertible matrix P such that P−1 AP is a diagonal
matrix. Can you find P−1 ?
2 a b
4. Let A := 0 1 c ∈ K3×3 . Find a necessary and
0 0 2
sufficient condition on a, b, c for A to be diagonalizable.
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5. Let k ∈ N and
0 −1 0 0 0 ··· ··· 0
1 0 0 0 0 ··· ··· 0
0 0 0 −1 0 · · · · · · 0
0 0 1 0 0 · · · · · · 0
A := .. ∈ K2k×2k ,
0 0 0 0 0 . · · · 0
. . ..
.. .. .. .. .. ..
. . . .
..
. .
0 · · · · · · 0 0 0 0 −1
0 ··· ··· 0 0 0 1 0
that is, A has all diagonal entries 0, the subdiagonal
entries are 1, 0, 1, 0 . . . , 1, 0, and the superdiagonal entries
are −1, 0, −1, 0, . . . , −1, 0. Find the characteristic
polynomial of A, all eigenvalues of A, and their algebraic
as well as geometric multiplicities.
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6. Let λ ∈ K. Show that λ is an eigenvalue of A if and only
if λ is an eigenvalue of A∗ , but their eigenvectors can be
very different.
7. Let A ∈ Kn×n . Show that 0 is an eigenvalue of A if and
only if 0 is an eigenvalue of A∗ A, and its geometric
multiplicity is the same.
2 i 1+i
8. Let A := −i 3 1 . Show that no eigenvalue
1 − i −1 8
of A is away from√ one of the diagonal entries of A by
more than 1 + 2.
9. A square matrix A := ∑[ajk ] is called strictly diagonally
dominant if |ajj | > k̸=j |ajk | for each j = 1, . . . , n. If A
strictly diagonally dominant, show that A is invertible.
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10. Let A ∈ Kn×n
{∑. Define α2 := max{∥Ax∥ } : ∥x∥ = 1},
α∞ := max{ ∑ k=1 |ajk | : j = 1, . . . , n} and
n
j=1 |ajk | : k = 1, . . . , n , where A := [ajk ].
n
α1 := max
Show that |λ| ≤ min{α2 , α∞ , α1 } for every eigenvalue λ.
11. Let x, y ∈ Kn×1 . Prove the parallelogram law:
∥x + y∥2 + ∥x − y∥2 = 2∥x∥2 + 2∥y∥2 ,
and the cosine law for nonzero x and y:
∥x − y∥2 = ∥x∥2 + ∥y∥2 − 2∥x∥∥y∥ cos θ,
where the angle θ ∈( [0, π] between nonzero
) x and y is
defined to be cos−1 R ⟨x, y⟩/∥x∥∥y∥ .
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