grandes-ecoles 2017 QII.A.3

grandes-ecoles · France · centrale-maths1__official Matrices Determinant and Rank Computation
We assume $n \geq 2$. Let $F = H$ be a hyperplane of $E_{n}$ and let $N \in E_{n}$ be a unit vector normal to $H$. Deduce that $A$ is $H$-singular if and only if the matrix $A_{N} = \left(\begin{array}{cc} A & N \\ N^{\top} & 0 \end{array}\right) \in \mathcal{M}_{n+1}(\mathbb{R})$ is singular.
We assume $n \geq 2$. Let $F = H$ be a hyperplane of $E_{n}$ and let $N \in E_{n}$ be a unit vector normal to $H$. Deduce that $A$ is $H$-singular if and only if the matrix $A_{N} = \left(\begin{array}{cc} A & N \\ N^{\top} & 0 \end{array}\right) \in \mathcal{M}_{n+1}(\mathbb{R})$ is singular.