Kaba
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Re: Orthogonal complement
Posted:
Mar 4, 2013 6:19 PM
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5.3.2013 1:17, Kaba kirjoitti:
> Claim
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> If S subset V is a non-degenerate subspace of V, then C(C(S)) = S.
This should have read:
If S subset V, where V is a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear space,
then C(C(S)) = S.
> Attempted proof sketch
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> First it is shown that S subset C(C(S)), which is easy to see. Then,
> without additional justifications, it is claimed that
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> dim(S) + dim(C(S)) = dim(V) = dim(C(S)) + dim(C(C(S))),
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> which implies dim(C(C(S)) = dim(S), and therefore C(C(S)) = S.
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> Related
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> There is a similar argument in Lang's Algebra, equally mysterious. What
> might be the source of such dimension arguments? I'm guessing the
> rank-nullity theorem:
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> dim(V) = dim(f(V)) + dim(f^{-1}(0)),
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> for any linear f : V --> W.
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> The problem is that while it is possible to prove, for V non-degenerate,
> that
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> S intersect C(S) = {0},
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> it seems hard to prove that S union C(S) = V. In general, these
> questions seem related:
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> 1) C(C(S)) = S
> 2) V = S + C(S) (direct sum)
> 3) dim(S) + dim(C(S)) = dim(V)
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> My intuition says that these properties hold only for finite-dimensional
> spaces, and therefore any proof must necessary use a property which is
> specific to finite dimensional spaces.
>
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