Solution

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False; in fact no matrix with this spectrum is diagonalizable over . If a real invertible gave with a real diagonal matrix, all eigenvalues of would be the real diagonal entries of . But two of the required eigenvalues have nonzero imaginary parts. This contradiction proves
The real block form in the initial example is consistent with this: a two-dimensional rotation block is not a real diagonalization.

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