## Networks as Vector Spaces

Consider the network below.

We can consider the closed loop bdef to be the sum of the loops bcf and cde. Notice that c is taken in the opposite sense for these loops so addition cancels out the arc c.
We can represent each arc taken anticlockwise about a point P by a vector.
$a= \begin{pmatrix}1\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: b= \begin{pmatrix}0\\1\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: c= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\1\\0\\0\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: d= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\0\\1\\0\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: e= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\0\\0\\1\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: f= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\1\\0\end{pmatrix}, \: g= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\1\end{pmatrix}$

Then arc bcf is
$-b-c+f= \begin{pmatrix}0\\-1\\-1\\0\\0\\1\\0\end{pmatrix}$

and the arc cde by the vector
$c-d-e= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\1\\-1\\-1\\0\\0\end{pmatrix}$

$-b-c+f+c-d-e=-b+f-d-e= \begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\-1\\0\\-1\\-1\\1\end{pmatrix}$
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