Solution

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Right multiplication is linear because . In the supplied row-entry basis, write . Multiplying on the right gives coordinates . Therefore
The transpose is ordinary, with no complex conjugation. Block determinants and invariance of determinant under transpose prove
For every polynomial , powers of right multiplication give . If then ; if , take to infer . They have identical annihilating polynomials, so their unique monic least-degree annihilator, the minimal polynomial, is the same. Thus , as in the characteristic and minimal polynomials of right multiplication result.

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