Solution

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A single eigenbasis works for every choice of the parameters. The columns , , satisfy
They are linearly independent because their column matrix has determinant one. Thus the diagonalization is
This formula includes all coincidences among , so no special repeated-eigenvalue cases need separate bases.

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