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EE609 Assignment 1 January 1, 2015

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EE609

Assignment 1

January 1, 2015

Weight: 1% if submitted by Jan 7, 2014.


Assignment will not be graded. No need to submit practice problems.

1 Assignment Problems
1. Prove the Woodbury identity for rectangular matrices B, D, and invertible matrices A, C,
(A + BCD)1 = A1 A1 B(C1 + DA1 B)1 DA1

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2. Let A and B be two rectangular matrices of compatible sizes (say np and pn respectively).
Show that det(I + AB) = det(I + BA).
3. Let i (A) denote an eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix A. Find the following in terms of
i (A)
(a) Tr(A3 )
(b) i (A2 )
(c) i (A I)

(d) i (I + 2A)
4. Prove the following results for A 0:
(a) A1 0

(b) [A]ii > 0 for all i, where [A]ii denotes the i-th diagonal entry of A.
5. A matrix A is idempotent if A2 = A. Show that the only possible eigenvalues of an idempotent matrix are = 0 and = 1.
Pr
2
T
6. Given an mP
n matrix A with SVD A = A =
i=1 i vi ui , show that kAkF :=
r
tr(AT A) = i=1 i2 .

2 Practice Problems
7. Show that
(A1 + BT C1 B)1 BT C1 = ABT (BABT + C)1

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8. Find an expression for (A + xyT )1 in terms of A1 , x and y for invertible matrix A and
(column) vectors x and y.
9. Let A and B be two rectangular matrices of compatible sizes (say np and pn respectively).
If m > n, show that the first n eigenvalues of AB and BA are the identical.
10. Given A 0 and for any B, rank(BABT ) = rank(B).
11. Given A 0 and if B is full row-rank, then BABT 0.
12. Given A 0, then for any matrix X, it holds that XAXT = 0 AX = 0.
13. Inner product and norms
(a) ku + vk22 = kuk22 + kvk22 if and only if uT v = 0.

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(b) 2 < a, b > +2 < x, y >=< a + x, b + y > + < a x, b y >

(c) kxk1 n kxk2

(d) kxk1 kxk2 kxk

14. Consider X = {x Rn |Ax = b} for A Rmn and b Rm with b R(A). Prove that
the following two statements are equivalent (i.e., (a) (b) and (b) (a))
1. cT x = d for all x X

2. There exists v Rm such that c = AT v and d = bT v.


15. Prove the triangle inequality for matrices, kA + BkF kAkF + kBkF .
16. Matrices A and B are similar if there exists an invertible matrix C such that A = C1 BC.
For similar matrices A and B, show that
(a) It holds that i (A) = i (B) for all i.
(b) Matrices A3 and B3 are also similar.
17. A unitary matrix A satisfies AT A = AAT = I. Find the singular value decomposition of a
unitary matrix A.
18. Consider two real n n matrices A and B. Which of the following statements are true
in general. Either prove them or provide a counter example (Hint: try with simple 2 2
examples).
(a) R(AB) R(A)

(b) R(AB) R(B)

(c) R(AB) R(A)

(d) R(AB) R(A)


19. The 2 norm of a matrix A is defined as
kAk2 = min kAxk2
kxk2 =1

Derive an expression for kAk2 in terms of {i }ri=1 .


20. For an m n matrix A, what is the relationship between i (A) and i (AT A) ?

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