Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/ib/paper-1/8f/d/solution

False. The real matrix
has the two distinct complex eigenvalues and , so it is diagonalizable over . It has no real eigenvalue and hence no real eigenbasis, so it is not diagonalizable over .

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