In the questions below, denotes the set of all real numbers, stands for the transpose of , is the inverse of a matrix , and denotes the identity matrix of size .
(1) Let be an arbitrary real matrix of size . Assume that is non-singular. Show that the following equation holds.
(2) Let and be arbitrary real matrices of size and , respectively. Assume that is non-singular. Show that is non-singular and that the following equation holds.
We want to find a vector such that for some scalar , where and is not a scalar multiple of .
Since is an orthogonal matrix, it preserves the norm of the multiplied vector. Thus, , and we have:
So we are actually looking for a such that . From the definition of , we have:
Rearranging this equation:
This shows that the vector must be parallel to . Let's choose to be just this vector and verify the result. Let , we have . Now compute the terms in the equation (1):
Thus, equation (1) stands true, which confirms our choice of is correct. And the different signs influence be of different scalar of .