Solution

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

Let . A concrete real matrix is
Its 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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