Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/iii/paper-331/4/a/i/solution

The matrix exponential is the absolutely convergent power series
It converges in any finite-dimensional operator norm, since . Termwise differentiation gives , , so the solution is . Also , proving invertibility without requiring itself to be invertible.
The question's expansion in eigenvectors tacitly needs an eigenbasis: an invertible matrix alone need not be a diagonalizable matrix. The exponential solution and the singular-value arguments remain valid without that assumption.

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