Past exam of the numerical linear algebra course of the University of Oxford / 2011 / 1 / c

Let $u_j$ and $v_j$ be the columns of the orthogonal matrices $U$ and $V$ in the singular value decomposition. Multiplying by the rectangular diagonal matrix retains its $r$ nonzero diagonal entries:The families $(u_j)$ and $(v_j)$ are orthonormal, hence in particular orthogonal. Each summand is a rank-one outer product, and the remaining terms vanish because their singular values are zero.