In: Advanced Math
Let u be a unit vector, and P = Identity vector − u⊗u. Compute P^2 and P^(−1).
Hint: Rank one Matrix.
The outer product
is equivalent to the matrix multiplication
that is
where
is the transpose of
. Since
is a unit vector,
Now,
is idempotent and
which means
is non-identity idempotent matrix.
Now we know that only non-singular idempotent matrix is the
identity matrix. All the non-identity idempotent matrix are
singular and hence does not invertible. So,
does not exist in the present case.