Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/prelims/mathematics-i/3/b/ii/solution

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, giving
Therefore . The vector need not itself be an eigenvector of in the column-sum case.

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