Solution

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The part of the log-likelihood depending on is
Completing the square separates the sum into a term independent of and . Positive definiteness makes its unique minimum occur at . Since linear combinations of independent multivariate normal vectors are normal,
The Hessian matrix is negative definite, confirming the global likelihood maximum.

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