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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 6 a Solution by
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A skew-Hermitian matrix satisfies , where denotes the conjugate transpose. If with , thenSince , this gives .
A unitary matrix satisfies . It preserves the Hermitian inner product and norm. Thus if ,and therefore . Zero is allowed among the purely imaginary eigenvalues in the first statement, but not among the unitary eigenvalues.
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