Solution

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For a decision in the unit ball, conditional expectation under the posterior gives
The symmetric positive semidefinite matrix has a Rayleigh quotient maximized over by any unit eigenvector corresponding to its largest eigenvalue. Bayes decision rule therefore chooses any such eigenvector for the stated utility.

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