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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics I 3 b ii Solution by
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Yes. The sums of the columns of are the sums of the rows of its transpose . By the previous argument, , so . The determinant is unchanged by transpose, givingTherefore . The vector need not itself be an eigenvector of in the column-sum case.
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