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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2005 Paper 1 2 e Solution by
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True. Orthogonality gives and , so . Thus is a similar matrix to . If , set . ThenThe transformed eigenvector is nonzero because is invertible. Applying the inverse transformation gives the reverse correspondence, and similar matrices also have the same characteristic polynomial, including algebraic multiplicities of all eigenvalues.
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