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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 2 11G ii Solution by
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The annihilating polynomial excludes any free -summand. In a cyclic primary decomposition summand , the same condition requires to divide . Thus , up to a scalar unit, and . The complex dimension of this summand is .
Write . The exponents must form a partition of an integer , giving exactlyThey are distinct module isomorphism types by uniqueness in the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain; equivalently they are the five possible Jordan block patterns for eigenvalue in dimension four.
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