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Questions about the properties of vector spaces and linear transformations, including linear systems in general.

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How to find eigenvalues following Axler?

Using minimality can help. Without using the polynomial-root oracle you can find the minimal polynomial of $T$ by looking for the first linear dependence among $I, T, T^2, \dotsc, T^r$ (for the minim …
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Dimension of a general partial derivative of a linear subspace of polynomials

Change coordinates, or act by a linear transformation, so that $U$ is a general subspace and we are differentiating by $\partial = \frac{\partial}{\partial x_1}$. Since $U$ is general, it has a basis …
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The functional equation $T(x\otimes y)=T(x)\otimes T(y)$ on the matrix algebra

What is a linear operator---do you require $T_n(X_1 X_2) = T_n(X_1) T_n(X_2)$? If not, $T_n(X) = c^n X$ for a fixed scalar $c$ works. Even if yes, I think that $T_n(X) = X$ if $n$ odd, $0$ if $n$ even …
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Permanent of distorted matrix

Say $M$ is $n \times n$. For $1 \leq k \leq n$, let $P_k(M)$ be the sum of all of the permanents of $k \times k$ minors of $M$; and let $P_0(M) = 1$. For example $P_n(M)$ is the permanent of $M$, whic …
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Symmetric tensors as sum of powers

In effect you are asking how to write monomials as sums of powers (with scalar coefficients; linear combinations of powers). The expression given by @abx is very elegant, but uses $2^k-1$ terms for $e …
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Strassen-like algorithm for Hadamard product of $2\times 2$ matrices

Let's write $T \in \mathcal{A}^* \otimes \mathcal{B}^* \otimes \mathcal{C}$ for the tensor, and $L_T : \mathcal{A} \otimes \mathcal{B} \to \mathcal{C}$ for the linear map given by $A \otimes B \mapsto …
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Existence of polynomial equation system solution

The variety $N$ of nilpotent matrices has codimension $n$ (e.g., this MSE answer). In projective space, generally, $A,B_1C_1,B_2C_2,\dotsc,B_nC_n$ span an $n$-plane. Because of the dimension, this pla …
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Question about polynomials over finite fields

The condition clearly implies $|A|=|B|$. (Fix a line $\ell$ and sum over all univariate polynomials on $\ell$.) Also, if $A$ and $B$ satisfy the condition and $p=p(x,y)$ is any bivariate polynomial of …
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Is there a useful generalization of the Schmidt decomposition to the tensoring together of 3...

There is some recent work on tensors (and also the special cases of symmetric and alternating tensors) that admit orthogonal or unitary decompositions (resp., symmetric or alternating decompositions). …
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Extending a continuous map over projective space

Your condition (1) means: if $\hat{u}$, $\hat{v}$, and $\hat{w}$ are linearly dependent, then so are $\widehat{\varphi(u)}$, $\widehat{\varphi(v)}$, and $\widehat{\varphi(w)}$. So $\varphi$ preserves …
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Inverse of a larger matrix where the inverse of the submatrix is known

You know $\begin{pmatrix} A & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}^{-1} = \begin{pmatrix} A^{-1} & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$, and from there you can make two successive rank-$1$ modifications, first adding $b$ al …
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Symmetric tensor decomposition

A recent introduction is Carlini, et al, Four lectures on secant varieties. Adam mentioned Landsberg, Tensors: Geometry and Applications. In brief: 1(a). If $T$ is a symmetric tensor of tensor rank …
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Why is the Vandermonde determinant harmonic?

Consider the symmetric group action permuting the variables. The Vandermonde determinant $V$ is antisymmetric, meaning it spans an alternating representation—it's invariant under permutations, up to m …
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