Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/ib/paper-2/17f/ii/solution

For any complex , the shifted linear operator is normal: expansion of leaves just . Apply part (i) to this shifted normal operator:
Hence a nonzero vector is an eigenvector of with eigenvalue if and only if it is an eigenvector of with eigenvalue . The eigenspaces coincide, with conjugate eigenvalues.

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