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4:16 AM
I dont know of any other definitions since my linear algebra course was not abstract at all lol
But I'm more than happy to learn of some if it'll help with proofs
 
so you wouldn't even know a definition of the determinant for, say, 5x5 matrices? or nxn matrices?
maybe they gave you something
but yeah, if they didn't, i'd grab a book that does give you a definition. det(ab) = det(a) det(b) is something that you will see proved pretty soon after any definition.
which isn't to say that the proof is always nice to look at
 
EM4
Hello!
 
@Koro this is an interesting question. offhand i would guess that the dimensions do have to be the same, but also that it matters that your field is R and not some arbitrary field
i'm thinking, given some more general field k, if there is a field endomorphism f: k to k that is not surjective, then {1} is a basis for (k,+,*), but if you give k the funny scalar multiplication k.x = f(k)*x, then {1} is not a basis for (k,+,.). which is not all by itself a proof that (k,+,.) isn't one-dimensional, is suggestive that maybe it doesn't have to be
e.g. if k is something like Q(t) and f is the automorphism sending p(t) to p(t^2), it feels like maybe {1,t} could be a basis for (k,+,.)
but R doesn't have any endomorphisms that aren't automorphisms
i guess maybe actually the fact that {v} isn't a basis for a nonzero vector v in V is a proof that V isn't one dimensional. it's just, this fact all by itself wouldn't tell us what the "not one dimensional" dimension is
just thinking out loud there
hi EM4
 
EM4
4:34 AM
how are you doing?
 
pretty good, i had a light weekend. yourself?
 
EM4
great to hear, I am coming back to math.
 
$$t^2 \frac{\partial^3}{\partial t^3}\Delta_t(s)+s^2 \frac{\partial}{\partial s} \Delta_t(s)=0 $$

is satisfied by

$$\Delta_t(s)= - d(s) \sqrt{\frac{t}{s}}Y_1{(4\pi\sqrt{ts})}- d(s)\sqrt{\frac{t}{s}}K_1(4\pi \sqrt{ts})$$

for $Y_1$ and $K_1$ Bessel functions and $d(s)$ is the divisor function.

$$\Delta(t)= -\sum_{s \in \Bbb N} d(s) \sqrt{\frac{t}{s}}Y_1{(4\pi\sqrt{ts})}-\sum_{s \in \Bbb N}^\infty d(s)\sqrt{\frac{t}{s}}K_1(4\pi \sqrt{ts})$$
That's what i noticed
however $d(s)$ is the divisor function which I don't know how to extend to the complexes
I know that it is possible but I would have to learn the construction
 
5:45 AM
@leslietownes Yes, let's consider field R only. I was thinking of defining a scalar multiplication p: R\times V--->V as p(r,v)=0 for all r and v.
But it doesn't work because we require p(1,v)=v for all v.
:)
 
Hey! I've tried to solve this problem for quite a few times now and I'm just not getting it. I looked up the solutions online and most of them don't even get the answer 41. Any help would be appreciated!
 
@Swan Do you know about permutation groups?
 
@SoumikMukherjee I do
 
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Q: Number of functions $f : A \to A$ with $f(f(x)) = x$

andyLet $A$ be set such that $n(A)=5$. How many functions can we define on $A$ with the property $(f\circ f)(x)=x$ ? I think the identity function works but what about others? Should $f$ have an inverse? I think permutations may be involved, but I am not sure how to progress.

to make a long story short, it isn't any of those answers. 25 maybe comes the "closest" (it counts the number of such f that are not the identity)
 
6:25 AM
@leslietownes Man I had gotten 25 itself in my first attempt (I had forgotten to map the numbers to themselves). It's so weird they have not made any clarification about if this question was given bonus or something. Such a wastage of time and effort
 
oof, yeah. at least it kept you off the street and (one presumes) out of trouble?
 
@Swan What exam is this from?
 
@leslietownes 😭😭
@SoumikMukherjee IISER APTITUDE TEST 2021. This one gets you into the 7 IIISERs and IISc (from last year)
 
for MSc?
 
As in IISc added this exam as one of their modes of admission from last year. That's the reason the exam is getting popular
@SoumikMukherjee No, BS (Research) for IISc and Integrated BS+MS for IISERs
 
6:33 AM
IISER making such a mistake is totally unexpected
 
@SoumikMukherjee There are more errors (or I guess ambiguity) in the biology section. (You have to study PCMB to get the top ranks). And they don't even have an official answer key on their site.
 

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