Subspace

Show that L and {0} are the only subspaces of $L=\{t\bold{v}:t \in F\} \subseteq V$ where V is a vector space over a field F and $\bold{v} \in V$ .

I don't know how to show they are the only subspaces of L and any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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Originally Posted by slevvio

Show that L and {0} are the only subspaces of $L=\{t\bold{v}:t \in F\} \subseteq V$ where V is a vector space over a field F and $\bold{v} \in V$ .

I don't know how to show they are the only subspaces of L and any help would be appreciated, thank you.

If $M$ is a subspace of $L$ , either it is equal to $\{0\}$ or it contains a non-zero vector $\bold{w}$ . But if $\bold{0}\neq \bold{w}\in M\subset L$ , there is a non-zero $t\in F$ such that $\bold{w}=t\bold{v}$ , hence $\bold{v}=\frac{1}{t}\bold{w}\in M$ , and as a consequence every scalar multiple of $\bold{v}$ is in $M$ : $L\subset M$ and finally $M=L$ .

Thanks I see this now