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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics I 4 c iii Solution by
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is not an orthogonal matrix. Its first column has squared Euclidean normso . The reason this is compatible with ii is that is not an orthonormal basis for the given inner product. Its Gram matrix isThe correct condition on this matrix representation of a linear map iswhich follows either by direct multiplication or by the inner product preservation just proved. This is the rule for an orthogonal transformation in a nonorthonormal basis.
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