I am looking for an example of an additive map that is not a linear transformation over R, when R is considered as a Q-vector space. I mean, I want to find an example of a map T:R→R such that T(u+v)=T(u)+T(v) for all u,v∈R, but T(αv)=αT(u) is not true for all α∈R.
Thanks for your kindly help.
Answer
Let {rα} be a Hamel basis of R over Q. Let ϕ map x to cα1+⋯+cαk, where the (unique) basis representation of x is cα1rα1+⋯+cαkrαk. Then ϕ(x+y)=ϕ(x)+ϕ(y), but takes on only rational values.
If ϕ(αv)=αϕ(v) for all α, v in R, then ϕ would be onto.
As this isn't the case, ϕ is not R-linear.
It is Q-linear, though. In fact, any additive map would automatically be Q-linear.
As far as I know, you need the axiom of choice to construct a function of this type (?).
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