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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics I 1 b ii Solution by
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Write and . Because is a diagonal matrix,Thus exactly when for every . The three eigenvalues are distinct, so every off-diagonal entry of must be zero; diagonal entries are unrestricted. Consequently the centralizer of a diagonal matrix here isEvery displayed matrix indeed commutes with , since diagonal matrices multiply entry by entry on the diagonal.
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