Solution

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True. Orthogonality gives and , so . Thus is a similar matrix to . If , set . Then
The 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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