Direct Sum
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Mathematics/Linear Algebra
SumDefinition 1. Let $W_1, ..., W_k \leq V$. We define the sum of these subspaces to be the set $\{v_1 + \cdots + v_k \,|\, v_i \in W_i \text{ for } 1 \leq i \leq k\}$, which we denote by $$\sum_{i=1}^k W_i.$$Direct SumDefinition 2. Let $W_1, ..., W_k \leq V$. We call $V$ the direct sum of $W_1, ..., W_k$ and write $$V = \bigoplus_{i=1}^k W_i,$$ if $V = \sum_{i=1}^k W_i$ and $W_j \cap \sum_{i \n..