Orthognality
Orthogonality of the four spaces
Def.1 Orthognality:
Two subspaces V V and
of a vector space are Orthogonal O r t h o g o n a l if every vector vv v v is perpendicular to every vector ww w w in WW W W .
Orthogonal subspaces
vvTww=0 v v T w w = 0
for all
vv v v
in
VV V V
and
ww w w
in
WW W W
.
The surface of the floor and the wall is perpendicular, but these two spaces are not orthogonal, since we can still find two vectors in each space that are not perpendicular.
Null space and Row Space are orthogonal
If xx∈N(A) x x ∈ N ( A ) , then we have Axx=0 A x x = 0 .
⎡⎣⎢⎢⎢row1row2...rowm⎤⎦⎥⎥⎥[x]=⎡⎣⎢⎢⎢row1∙xrow2∙x...rowm∙x⎤⎦⎥⎥⎥=⎡⎣⎢⎢⎢00...0⎤⎦⎥⎥⎥ [ r o w 1 r o w 2 . . . r o w m ] [ x ] = [ r o w 1 ∙ x r o w 2 ∙ x . . . r o w m ∙ x ] = [ 0 0 . . . 0 ]
Inner product of xx x x and the matrix A A equals . Similiarly we can prove that Row space and left null space are orthogonal.
Orthognal Complemen
Row space and Null space split RnRn R n R n into two orthogonal subspaces. For example for matrix A=[1224510] A = [ 1 2 5 2 4 10 ] ,