Mathematics
GATE MA topic:linear-algebra PYQs
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Questions 51–60 of 62. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 53
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Consider the inner product space
of all polynomials of degree at most 2 over the field of real numbers with the inner product
for
. Let
be an orthogonal set in
, where
,
,
and
are real constants. Then the value of
is equal to _____.Log in to check the answer
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Let
, where
are real numbers and
. The geometric multiplicity of the largest eigenvalue of
equals ________.Log in to check the answer
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Consider the subspaces
of
. Then the dimension of
equals ________.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be the real vector space of all polynomials of degree less than or equal to 2 with real coefficients. Let
be the linear transformation given by
where
is the derivative of
. Then the number of nonzero entries in the Jordan canonical form of a matrix of
equals ________.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be the vector space of all
real matrices over the field
. Define the linear transformation
by
, where
denotes the transpose of the matrix
. Then the trace of
equals _________.Log in to check the answer
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Consider
with the usual inner product. If
is the distance from
to the subspace
of
, then
_________.Log in to check the answer
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Consider the matrix
with
, where
is the
identity matrix and
is the transpose of
. If
and
are two distinct eigenvalues of
, then
_________.Log in to check the answer
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Consider the vector space
of polynomials of degree at most 2. Let
be a linear functional such that
,
and
. Then
equals ______.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be a
matrix such that
, where
is the identity matrix. If
has two distinct eigenvalues and each eigenvalue has geometric multiplicity 3, then the total number of nonzero entries in the Jordan canonical form of
equals ______.Log in to check the answer
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If
and
are the null spaces of
and
, respectively, then the dimension of the subspace
equals ________.Log in to check the answer
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