Linear map

Rank-nullity theorem

Let 𝑇 βˆˆπ–΅π–Ύπ–Όπ—π•‚(π‘ˆ,𝑉) be a linear map. Then any complement of the kernel is isomorphic to the image linalg

(ker⁑𝑇)𝑐≅im⁑𝑇

and thus the sum of the rank and the nullity equals the dimension of π‘ˆ1

rank⁑𝑇+nullity⁑𝑇=dimβ‘π‘ˆ.

In full generality, this is downstream of AC.

Corollaries

  • It follows that an endomorphism 𝑇 on a finite-dimensional vector space is monic iff it is epic.


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Footnotes

  1. 2008. Advanced Linear Algebra, p. 63 ↩