Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-linear-algebra-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/3/c/i/solution

Take . It is a polynomial in the normal operator , so part (b)(iii) makes a normal operator. Also . If , part (b)(i), applied to , gives
The norm vanishes only at the zero vector, so
This is the adjoint eigenvector identity for a normal matrix expressed independently of coordinates.

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