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Algebra Level 4

If A A is any invertible 2 × 2 2\times 2 matrix, then there must exist two perpendicular unit vectors v v and w w such that the vectors A v Av and A w Aw are perpendicular as well.

Bonus Question : Can you generalize to 3 or even n n dimensions?

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Let A A be any n × n n\times n invertible matrix. So, without any loss of generalization, we can suppose that A A is the matrix representation of any bijective Linear Transformation T : X Y T: X \to Y , where the dimension of both, X X and Y Y is n n , which are both Vector Spaces. As vector space it is, there exist n n linearly independent vectors in Y Y which are its Basis. By Gram-Schmidt's process, there is an orthonormal set of vectors which are basis of Y Y and other set of vectors for X X . And then is clear that, because of the bijectivity of T T there are n n vectors v 1 , v 2 , . . . v n X {v_{1}, v_{2},... v_{n}} \in X such that A v 1 A v 2 . . . A v n Av_{1} \perp Av_{2} \perp... \perp Av_{n}

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