Sunday, 22 February 2015

Linear transformation between vector spaces over mathbbZ5



Let f:Z35Z27 be a transformation such that f([xyz]):=[x+2zx+yz]




My homework first asks me to show this is a linear transformation and decide whether or not it's surjective. This f transformation is then used in several questions which suggest its linearity (finding its Kernel, finding its transformation matrix, etc.).



My confusion is that the question doesn't specify what field these vector spaces are on. So the question would be if, say, I decide to pick Z5 as the field I work with, is there any way to make sense of this? after all, the operations in my two vector spaces are defined differently (namely, using their respective mod equivalence classes).



If it helps, the context of this homework is diagonalization and triangularization of transformation matrices.


Answer



I think there is probably a typo, as I don't see how to talk about a linear transformation when the codomain is a vector space over a different field than the domain.



Let's say f:Z35Z25.




The matrix is (102111).



Row-reduce: (102012). It has rank 2.



Thus it's surjective.



The kernel is {(2t2tt),tZ5}.


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