Solution

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The characteristic polynomials, in the convention , are
Solving the eigenvalue equations gives the complete eigenspaces
Every nonzero vector in a listed eigenspace is an eigenvector, and these are all the eigenvectors. For , the repeated eigenvalue has a two-dimensional eigenspace; for , all three eigenvalues are simple. The three displayed generating vectors form a basis because their column matrix
has determinant . Thus both matrices are diagonalizable, with diagonal entries for and for in this basis.

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