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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 1 6B b i Solution by
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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 iswhich has dimension two. It cannot supply three linearly independent eigenvectors, so
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