Affine Combinations and Affine Dependence
An affine combination is a linear combination in which the sum of the coefficients is 1. Just as members of a set of vectors are linearly independent if none is a linear combination of the others, so also they are affinely independent if none is an affine combination of the others. The set of linear combinations of a set of vectors is their "linear span" and is always a linear subspace; the set of all affine combinations is their "affine span" and is always an affine subspace. For example, the affine span of a set of two points is the line that contains both; the affine span of a set of three non-collinear points is the plane that contains all three.
Vectors
- v1, v2, ..., vn
are linearly dependent if there exist scalars a1, a2, …,an, not all zero, for which
-
a1v1 + a2v2 + … + anvn = 0
(1)
Similarly they are affinely dependent if in addition the sum of coefficients is zero:
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