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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 6 c Solution by
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The anticommutator condition and invertibility give the matrix similaritiesSince matrix trace is invariant under matrix similarity,Hence . Taking determinants in the first matrix similarity also givesSince is an invertible matrix, , and . In terms of eigenvalues, the same matrix similarity pairs each nonzero eigenvalue with , with the same algebraic multiplicity, so an odd number of them is impossible.
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