I have an exam coming up and I have a whole bunch of questions to study from, and I am realizing that I really don't have a good grasp on basis matrices for linear transformations. One of the questions is:
For a linear map $f$ in $Hom_F( V,W)$ the (operator) adjoint $f^*:W^*\rightarrow V^*$ is defined by $f^*(g)=g\circ f$. If $f$ has matrix $A$ in some basis, what is the matrix of $f^*$ in the dual basis?
Similarly, here is another question that Im struggling a bit with that would help if I could get some intuition on...
A linear map between finite dimensional vector spaces $f:V\rightarrow W$ corresponds to a matrix when bases for $V$ and $W$ are chosen. HOw does this matrix change if we change bases in $V$ and $W$.
Let $(w_j)_{j=0}^{m-1},(g_j)_{j=0}^{m-1}$ be a basis-dual basis pair of $W$ and $W^*$. Let $(v_k)_{k=0}^{n-1},(f_k)_{k=0}^{n-1}$ be a basis-dual basis pair of $V$ and $V^*$. Suppose that $\Phi \in \operatorname{Hom}(V,W)$. Let $\mathbf M$ be the matrix of $\Phi$ w.r.t. $(w_j)_{j=0}^{m-1},(v_k)_{k=0}^{n-1}$ and $\mathbf N$ be the matrix of $\Phi^*$. By definition, $$ \Phi^* g_j = \sum_{r=0}^{n-1} \mathit N_{j,r} f_r $$ Hence $$ (\Phi^* g_j)(v_k) = \sum_{r=0}^{n-1} \mathit N_{j,r} f_r(v_k) = \mathit N_{j,k} $$ On the other hand,
$$ (\Phi^* g_j)(v_k) = g_j(\Phi v_k) = g_j \left(\sum_{r=0}^{m-1} \mathit{M}_{k,r} w_r\right) = \mathit{M}_{k,j} $$ Hence $\mathbf M = \mathbf N^\intercal$.
Your second question can be solved with change of basis matrix. That is, the identity operator w.r.t. two different bases.