Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/prelims/mathematics-i/1/c/ii/solution

If , every would satisfy , so would be a surjective linear map. But its image of a linear map has dimension at most , whereas . Therefore no such exists. This is the obstruction to a right inverse: cannot reach every target vector.

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