Properties
There is a natural epimorphism from V to the quotient space V/U given by sending x to its equivalence class . The kernel (or nullspace) of this epimorphism is the subspace U. This relationship is neatly summarized by the short exact sequence
If U is a subspace of V, the dimension of V/U is called the codimension of U in V. Since a basis of V may be constructed from a basis A of U and a basis B of V/U by adding a representative of each element of B to A, the dimension of V is the sum of the dimensions of U and V/U. If V is finite-dimensional, it follows that the codimension of U in V is the difference between the dimensions of V and U (Halmos 1974, Theorem 22.2):
Let T : V → W be a linear operator. The kernel of T, denoted ker(T), is the set of all x ∈ V such that Tx = 0. The kernel is a subspace of V. The first isomorphism theorem of linear algebra says that the quotient space V/ker(T) is isomorphic to the image of V in W. An immediate corollary, for finite-dimensional spaces, is the rank-nullity theorem: the dimension of V is equal to the dimension of the kernel (the nullity of T) plus the dimension of the image (the rank of T).
The cokernel of a linear operator T : V → W is defined to be the quotient space W/im(T).
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