Linear Algebra: Review and Exercises (To be continued)
Matrix Elementary Matrix The standard basis of $\mathbb F^n$ is $\{e_i\}_{1\leq i\leq n}$, where $e_i$ is the vector with $1$ in the $i$-th entry and $0$ elsewhere. It holds $$e_i^\top Ae_j=a_{ij},$$ This can be a test of a linear map $A:\mathbb F^n\to \mathbb F^n$ by the standard basis of $\mathbb F^n$. In total, $$A=\sum_{i,j=1}^n a_{ij}e_ie^\top_j=\sum_{i,j=1}^n a_{ij}E_{ij},$$We introduce a kind of basis of $M_n(\mathbb F)=\mathbb F^{n\times n}$ as $\{E_{ij}\}_{1\leq i,j\leq n}$, where $E_{ij}$ is the matrix with $1$ in the $(i,j)$-th entry and $0$ elsewhere, that is so-called elementary matrix, satisfying ...