Ivan Shishkin, Rye (1878)

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A diagonalizable matrix ?

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Solution by Ancient Tree · EN

The only eigenvalue of this matrix is 1 (with algebraic multiplicity 2). So if it was diagonalizable, it would be similar to the identity matrix :

(1101)=P(1001)P1=(1001)\left(\begin{array}{ll} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right)=P\left(\begin{array}{ll} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right) P^{-1}=\left(\begin{array}{ll} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right)which is a contradiction.

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