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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ia Paper 3 1D Solution by
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Let . A concrete real matrix isIts first coordinate has eigenvalue . The lower block has characteristic polynomial , whose roots are . Thus this example has all three required eigenvalues. It is also an orthogonal matrix, but orthogonality is not forced by its spectrum, as the second part shows.
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