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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2019 Digital systems, linear algebra, introduction to formal proof 5 f i Solution by
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For a sum of mutually orthogonal projectors, orthonormality gives for and one for . Therefore equals zero for different indices and for equal indices. Expanding the finite sum yieldsThus every stated partial sum is a projector. Its image of a linear map is the span of the first orthonormal set of vectors; arbitrary sums of idempotent matrices would not have this conclusion.
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