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Uniqueness of the Zero Vector and of Negatives

A vector space has exactly one zero vector, and each vector has exactly one negative with respect to it.

Statement

In the setting of Routine Facts Used Without Citation: Arithmetic, Maps, Predicativity and Indices, let KK, with ++, ⋅\cdot, 00 and 11, be a field, and let VV, with its addition and scalar multiplication, be a vector space over KK.

The zero vector is unique. There is exactly one z∈Vz\in V such that v+z=vv+z=v for every v∈Vv\in V.

Negatives are unique. Let zz be the element of VV given by (i). For every v∈Vv\in V there is exactly one w∈Vw\in V with v+w=zv+w=z.

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