# help me on invariant subspace please

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• January 7th 2009, 05:12 AM
Kat-M
help me on invariant subspace please
let T denote a linear operator on a vector space V. suppose that every subspace of V is invariant under T. prove that T is a scalar multiple of the identity map.

• January 7th 2009, 06:54 AM
Opalg
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Originally Posted by Kat-M
let T denote a linear operator on a vector space V. suppose that every subspace of V is invariant under T. prove that T is a scalar multiple of the identity map.

Step 1: Let x be a nonzero vector in V. Then the one-dimensional subspace spanned by x is invariant under T. So $Tx = c_xx$, for some scalar that (possibly) depends on x.

Step 2: Let x and y be linearly independent vectors in V. Then $Tx = c_xx,\ Ty = c_yy, \ T(x+y) = c_{x+y}(x+y)$. Deduce from this that $c_x = c_y$. Thus the constant c is in fact the same for every vector, and hence T is c times the identity.
• January 7th 2009, 07:57 AM
Kat-M
thanks
thank you very much. you really helped me.
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