Solution

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Over the complex numbers, the characteristic polynomial splits into three distinct roots of a polynomial, . Direct multiplication gives the eigenvectors
They are linearly independent: the last two have two-dimensional determinant in the first two coordinates, and the first has nonzero third coordinate. Thus
This is a basis of eigenvectors of , proving that has a diagonalizable matrix.

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