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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 ia Paper 1 7B a Solution by
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Expansion along the first column gives the characteristic polynomialThus the eigenvalue has algebraic multiplicity two. Solving gives and then , leaving arbitrary. Its eigenspace is and has geometric multiplicity one. A diagonalisable matrix needs an eigenvector basis, so is not diagonalisable.
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