How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
A square matrix is invertible exactly when its multiplication map is a linear isomorphism; matrices preserve inverses of linear isomorphisms
Statement
For , let be . Then is invertible if and only if is a linear isomorphism.
More generally, if is a linear isomorphism between finite-dimensional spaces and are ordered bases, then is invertible and
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A field , a natural , and the matrix multiplication map ; for the general claim, an isomorphism and ordered bases .
An invertible matrix has a two-sided matrix inverse, and a linear isomorphism has a two-sided linear inverse (Invertible matrices and the general linear group , Invertible linear maps, linear isomorphisms, and inverse linear maps).
Matrix multiplication distributes over addition and is compatible with scalar multiplication (Matrix multiplication is associative, unital, distributive, and compatible with scalar multiplication).
Every linear map between finite-dimensional coordinate spaces has a matrix in chosen ordered bases ( is a vector-space isomorphism ).
The dimension of a finite-dimensional vector space is the common size of its finite bases (Finite-dimensional vector space, and its dimension ; infinite-dimensional means having no finite basis).
Proof
By [L3], and are linear. If , then and , so is a linear isomorphism with inverse . This includes , where the unique empty matrix and the unique zero-space map are their own inverses.
Conversely, if has a linear inverse , [L4] represents by a matrix in the standard coordinate basis. The two identity composites and [L2] give , so is invertible.
For a general linear isomorphism , the list is an ordered basis of : transfers both linear independence and spanning back to . Hence [L5] shows that and have the same length, so the two displayed representation matrices are square. Representing and in the chosen bases, [L2] gives both inverse equations for and .
Depends on
- Invertible matrices and the general linear group $\operatorname{GL}_n(F)$
- Invertible linear maps, linear isomorphisms, and inverse linear maps
- $[T(v)]_{\mathcal C}=[T]_{\mathcal B}^{\mathcal C}[v]_{\mathcal B}$
- $[S\circ T]_{\mathcal B}^{\mathcal D}=[S]_{\mathcal C}^{\mathcal D}[T]_{\mathcal B}^{\mathcal C}$
- Matrix multiplication is associative, unital, distributive, and compatible with scalar multiplication
- $T\mapsto[T]_{\mathcal B}^{\mathcal C}$ is a vector-space isomorphism $\mathcal L(V,W)\cong M_{m\times n}(F)$
- Finite-dimensional vector space, and its dimension $\dim_F V$; infinite-dimensional means having no finite basis
Used by
Dependency tree · next 3 levels
Direct dependencies and their dependencies through the next three levels: 74 results over 21 levels. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, and this result sits at the bottom with a heavier outline. Click the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- S. Axler, Linear Algebra Done Right, 4th ed., Theorem 3.86 (standard reference, not scraped)
- S. Schiavone, MIT 18.700 Day 9, invertibility section (standard reference, not scraped)