Relation To The Left Null Space
The left null space of A is the set of all vectors x such that xTA = 0T. It is the same as the null space of the transpose of A. The left null space is the orthogonal complement to the column space of A.
This can be seen by writing the product of the matrix and the vector x in terms of the dot product of vectors:
where c1, ..., cn are the column vectors of A. Thus x = 0 if and only if x is orthogonal (perpendicular) to each of the column vectors of A.
It follows that the null space of is the orthogonal complement to the column space of A.
For a matrix A, the column space, row space, null space, and left null space are sometimes referred to as the four fundamental subspaces.
Read more about this topic: Column Space
Famous quotes containing the words relation to, relation, left, null and/or space:
“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (18421910)
“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“Thus was my first years life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Though seas and land be twixt us both,
Our faith and troth,
Like separated souls,
All time and space controls:
Above the highest sphere we meet
Unseen, unknown, and greet as angels greet.”
—Richard Lovelace (16181658)