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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ia Paper 1 2B c Solution by
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The shifted matrix is still a normal matrix, sinceand has the same expansion except that its first term is , which equals . For the given eigenvector, . Part (b), applied to , therefore gives . Since ,The corresponding eigenvalue of the Hermitian conjugate is the complex conjugate of the original eigenvalue.
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