Linear Space

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Linear space. A linear space is a basic structure in incidence geometry. Though linear space and its counterpart gamma space are fairly simple and important concepts to understand many developers don t learn what these terms really mean. Fessler october 4 2004 12 44 student version 2 7 2 5 linear independence often we need to quantify how big a subspace is.

Any line of has at least two points of. Scalars are often taken to be real numbers but there are also vector spaces with scalar multiplication by complex numbers rational numbers or generally any field. Linear spaces or vector spaces are sets that are closed with respect to linear combinations.

A first informal and somewhat restrictive definition. The points in a line are said to be incident with the line. A linear space consists of a set of elements called points and a set of elements called lines.

Another term used is affine subspace. Linear varieties arise in certain minimum norm problems. There are at least three points of not on a common line.

A linear space consists of a set of elements called points and a set of elements called lines. Each line is a distinct subset of the points. The points in a line are said to be incident with the line.

If xand yare linear spacesover the same scalar field s then the set l x y containing all linear operators from xinto yis a linear space over sif addition is defined by t1 t2 x t1 x t2 x for all x x and scalar multiplication by. Any two lines may have no more than one point in common. A vector space also called a linear space is a collection of objects called vectors which may be added together and multiplied scaled by numbers called scalars.