I have a linear map and the question goes like, how does transform a vector? Can someone please help me?
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nezivande0u
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2022-07-17Added 16 answers
The comments above on the OP are good, but here's another perspective. How does change the length of a vector? It is easy to verify that
So that for some vector v we have . That is, is an isometry (it can't change the length of vectors). So if cannot change the length of a vector, it could only possibly rotate a vector. So what is this angle? We can compute the angle, , between and v by computing
I'll leave it to you to verify that this gives (mod or whatever)