Conventions
Throughout this exercise sheet, unless otherwise stated, \(\mathbb{K}\) denotes either \(\mathbb{R}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\) and \(n, p, q\) are positive integers. The notation \(M_{n, p}(\mathbb{K})\) is the set of \(n \times p\) matrices with coefficients in \(\mathbb{K}\); \(M_n(\mathbb{K})\) is the square case. \(I_n\) is the identity matrix of size \(n\), \(E_{ij}\) the elementary matrix with a single \(1\) at position \((i, j)\), \(\mathrm{tr}\) the trace, \(A^\top\) the transpose, \(\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{K})\) the group of invertible matrices. The three elementary row operations are written \(L_i \leftrightarrow L_j\) (swap), \(L_i \leftarrow \lambda L_i\) (scaling, \(\lambda \ne 0\)), \(L_i \leftarrow L_i + \lambda L_j\) (transvection, \(i \ne j\)); same notation for columns with \(C\) instead of \(L\).