Solution

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The minimal polynomial factors over as with distinct roots. The diagonalizability criterion using the minimal polynomial therefore makes diagonalizable. Its characteristic polynomial gives multiplicities two, one and one, so its Jordan normal form is
up to reordering the one-dimensional Jordan blocks.

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