Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2006 / ia / Paper 3 / 1D / ii / Solution

False. Consider the real matrixIt is block upper triangular, so its characteristic polynomial is the same as that of $A_0$ and it has the required eigenvalues. Its second column, however, has squared Euclidean norm $1+c^2+c^2=2$, whereas every column of an orthogonal matrix has norm one. ThusUnit-modulus eigenvalues alone do not imply orthogonality; they do not control the geometry of the eigenvectors.