Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 4 40C e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let the computed eigenpair residual beDefine the rank-one matrixThenso is an exact eigenpair of the perturbed matrix . Moreover,which is the backward error of an approximate eigenpair.
Follow the simple eigenvalue branch from for . The first-order perturbation of a simple eigenvalue and part (b) giveSince the residual is at the machine precision scale, this proves