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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ia Paper 3 1D ii Solution by
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False. Consider the real matrixIt is block upper triangular, so its characteristic polynomial is the same as that of and it has the required eigenvalues. Its second column, however, has squared Euclidean norm , whereas every column of an orthogonal matrix has norm one. ThusUnit-modulus eigenvalues alone do not imply orthogonality; they do not control the geometry of the eigenvectors.
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