Matrix Entrywise Addition forms Abelian Group/Examples/nxn Matrices over Real Numbers

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Example of Matrix Entrywise Addition forms Abelian Group

Let $\R^{n \times n}$ denote the set of order $n$ square matrices over the set $\R$ of real numbers.

Then the algebraic structure $\struct {\R^{n \times n}, +}$, where $+$ denotes matrix entrywise addition, is an abelian group.


Proof

From Real Numbers under Addition form Infinite Abelian Group, $\struct {\R, +}$ is an abelian group.

It follows from Matrix Entrywise Addition forms Abelian Group that $\struct {\R^{n \times n}, +}$ is an abelian group.

$\blacksquare$


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