Solution

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The other eigenvalues are and . Their magnitudes are strictly less than one. All three eigenvalues are distinct, so their eigenvectors form a basis and the matrix is diagonalizable. Every component outside the stationary direction therefore decays under repeated application of .
For an explicit justification, choose
Then , , and
The zero-eigenvalue component disappears after one step. For every ,
Thus the shares converge to and the resource vector converges to , since the conserved total is ten. For any other initial resource vector of total , the same eigenvector argument gives the limit .

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