Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/ia/paper-1/6b/b/i/solution

If , then , and hence . Also because . Thus and are linearly independent eigenvectors with eigenvalue one.
For every vector ,
so is nonzero but has square zero:
Consequently all three eigenvalues are one. The eigenspace is
which has dimension two. It cannot supply three linearly independent eigenvectors, so

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