Solution

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The two eigenvalues are the points at arguments and . The counterclockwise arc from to has length , while the complementary clockwise arc has length . The shorter of the two contains the spectrum. Therefore
The two geometric cases are respectively the short counterclockwise arc and the short complementary clockwise arc; at both semicircles have length .

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