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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2018 Paper 1 18 c Solution by
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The three eigenvectors form an orthonormal basis, so an arbitrary vector has expansion . Multiplication by removes the zero-eigenvalue component:Its dot product with is zero for every . Thus one convenient answer is the nonzero vectorEquivalently, , so . Any nonzero scalar multiple of this vector in the null space also works.
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