Trace of the multiplication of two matrix

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1) Let $F$ be a field and $f$ be a linear functional on $M_{n}(F)$. Then there is a nonzero matrix $T$ in $M_{n}(F)$ such that $f(M)=\mathrm{tr}(TM)$ for all $M\subset M_{n}(F)$.

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2) Let $F$ be a field. Consider the a mapping on the algebra of all linear transformations on $F^n$ as follows: $$(T,A)=trace(TA).$$ Clearly, this is an inner product. Then this is non-singular.

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Let $E_{ij}$ be the matrix with $1$ in the $(i,j)$ position and $0$ elsewhere. Then $Tr(E_{i,j}A)=a_{j,i}$, the $(j,i)$ entry. Thus the linear functional $\phi_{j,i}:A\mapsto a_{j,i}$ has a representation as a trace map $A\mapsto Tr(TA)$.

All linear functionals on $M_n(F)$ are linear combinations of the $\phi_{j,i}$.

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How would you express an arbitrary linear combination of the entries of $M$? You'd need $n^2$ coefficients, which might be conveniently encapsulated by a matrix $T \in M_n(F)$. You might try multiplying out $TM$ to see what this gives you. Doing so you'd notice that the sum of the diagonal elements, $\operatorname{tr}(TM)$, gives you the desired linear combination.

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If you do out some linear algebra in the elementary matrices $E_{ij}$, you can find that the bilinear form on $M_n(F)$:

$$ X,Y \mapsto \text{Trace}(X^tY) $$

is actually the entrywise dot product on $F^{n \times n}$. Here $E_{ij}$ is the matrix with a $1$ is the $ij$th entry and zeros elsewhere, and $X^t$ denotes the transpose of $X$.