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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 1 5 b Solution by
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A single eigenbasis works for every choice of the parameters. The columns , , satisfyThey are linearly independent because their column matrix has determinant one. Thus the diagonalization isThis formula includes all coincidences among , so no special repeated-eigenvalue cases need separate bases.
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