Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ia/paper-3/1d/ii/solution

False. Consider the real matrix
It 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. Thus
Unit-modulus eigenvalues alone do not imply orthogonality; they do not control the geometry of the eigenvectors.

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