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Lecture Notes Course ÅMA 190 Numerical Mathematics, First ...

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Chapter 3Gaussian elimination forAx = b3.1 IntroductionThe Gauss elimination is based on systematic use of the followingLemma 3.1.1 Let x = (x 1 , . . . , x n ) T ∈ R n be a column vector, f 1 (x), f 2 (x)be functions having x as argument. Let finally c ≠ 0 be a constant. Then thefollowing two systems of equations have the same solution sets:f 1 (x) = 0, f 2 (x) = 0, (3.1)andf 1 (x) = 0, f 1 (x) + c · f 2 (x) = 0. (3.2)Proof: If x satisfies (3.1) then it immediately follows that x satisfies (3.2). Onthe other hand if f 1 (x) = 0, f 1 (x) + c · f 2 (x) = 0 we first see that f 1 (x) = 0giving that c · f 2 (x) = 0 and since c ≠ 0 we find that f 2 (x) = 0 as well, provingthe lemma.•We illustrate an application of the lemma with the followingExample 3.1.2 Solve the linear system3x + y = 1, (3.3)2x − y = 4 . (3.4)Using the lemma above we conclude that the system (3.3),(3.4) has the samesolution set as the system (3.5) below for all nonzero values of c:3x + y = 1, (2 + 3c)x + (c − 1)y = (4 + c). (3.5)26

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