EQUALITY OF ROW AND COLUMN RANK (O'Neil's proof) Is there smt wrong?

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The discussion centers on the validity of Theorem 7.9 regarding the equality of row and column rank as presented in O'Neil's proof. The user argues that the dimension of the column space should be exactly r, asserting that the first r columns of the specified vectors are linearly independent. This contradicts O'Neil's assertion that the dimension is at most r. The user seeks clarification on whether their interpretation or O'Neil's proof contains an error.

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EQUALITY OF ROW AND COLUMN RANK (o'Neil's proof) Is there smt wrong?

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Theorem 7.9: EQUALITY OF ROW AND COLUMN RANK
Proof: Page 210.

It writes:...
so the dimension of this column space is AT MOST r (equal to r if these columns are linearly independent, less than r if they are not)

I THINK THIS IS WRONG. Look at the r vectors:
1 0
0 1
: 0
0 :
BETAr+1,1 BETAr+1,2
:
BETAm1 BETAm2


The first r columns of these r vectors are e1,e2,...er. Hence, they are DEFINITELY LINEARLY INDEPENDENT.
There is no way to obtain 1 in the first coordinate of the first of the r vectors from the remaining r-1 vectors since the 1st coordinate of all of the remaining r-1 vectors are all 0.

Hence, the correct one should be:

so the dimension of this column space is EXACTLY r.

Where am I wrong? or O'neil's is really wrong as I indicated.
 
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there is no contradiction between his statement and yours, and in fact both statements are true.
 

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