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Past exam of the algebra 1 and differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 a i Solution by
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The identity gives the decompositionThe first summand lies in the kernel of a linear map , and the second in the image of a linear map . If belongs to their intersection, write ; then , while . Thus , proving the direct sumOn these two invariant subspaces, is respectively zero and the identity map. Joining a basis of each produces a basis of eigenvectors, with matrixHence every linear projection is diagonalizable, over the original field, including in characteristic two.
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