EE609 Assignment 1 January 1, 2015
EE609 Assignment 1 January 1, 2015
EE609 Assignment 1 January 1, 2015
Assignment 1
January 1, 2015
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
(1)
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
(2)
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.
EE609
Assignment 1, Page 2 of 2
January 1, 2015
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
(3)