Span of a Finite Family of Vectors

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Reason: Notation sweep: the family and the coefficients are now presented as tuples, an n-tuple v in V^n and an n-tuple c in K^n, referencing def:finite-tuple-power-2026a, in place of the maps from the initial segment [n] used in def:span-finite-family-2026a. Since V^n is by definition the set of maps from [n] to V, this is a change of presentation only; the set span(v) is unchanged. Brings the item into line with the tuple notation used from def:finite-tuple-power-2026a onwards. · 655 chars · 5 deps · depth 7

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Let $K$ be a field, let $V$ be a vector space over $K$ , let $n$ be a natural number, and let $v\in V^{n}$ be an $n$ -tuple in $V$ , with components $v_{k}$ .

The span of $v$ is the set

\operatorname{span}(v)=\Bigl\{u\in V\ :\ u=\sum_{k=1}^{n}c_{k}v_{k}\ \text{ for some }c\in K^{n}\Bigr\},

where $c_{k}$ denotes the $k$ -th component of the $n$ -tuple $c$ in $K$ , and the sum is the finite sum in $V$ of the $n$ -tuple whose $k$ -th component is $c_{k}v_{k}$ .

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