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Centralizer of a planar quarter-turn (AJ=JA⟺A=uI+vJ)

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For J=(01​−10​), the real matrix solutions of AJ=JA are precisely
A=uI+vJ=(uv​−vu​),u,v∈R.
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A nonzero such matrix equals u2+v2​Rθ​, where Rθ​ is a planar rotation matrix with cosθ=u/u2+v2​ and sinθ=v/u2+v2​. It acts like multiplication by the complex number u+iv. The zero matrix is the zero scalar multiple of any rotation.

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