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Problem Sheet 6

1. This document contains 14 problems related to eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalizability of matrices. 2. The problems involve finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, determining if matrices are diagonalizable, properties of block diagonal matrices, relations between eigenvalues of similar matrices and inverse matrices, and conditions under which matrices commute. 3. The document provides context for problems in a linear algebra course involving key concepts in the subject.

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Problem Sheet 6

1. This document contains 14 problems related to eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalizability of matrices. 2. The problems involve finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, determining if matrices are diagonalizable, properties of block diagonal matrices, relations between eigenvalues of similar matrices and inverse matrices, and conditions under which matrices commute. 3. The document provides context for problems in a linear algebra course involving key concepts in the subject.

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Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi

MTL104 (Linear Algebra & Applications)


Problem Sheet-6

Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors, Diagonalisability

1) Let V = R2 with bases

B = {(1, 1), (1, −1)} and B 0 = {(2, −1), (−1, 1)}.


 
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Let [v]β = . Then find [v]β 0 .
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2) Let V = P2 (R) with bases

β = {1, x, x2 } and β 0 = {1, x + 1, x2 + x + 1}.

Let p(x) = 3 − x + 2x2 . Then find [p(x)]β 0 .

3) Let V = P2 (R) with bases

β = {1, x, x2 } and β 0 = {1, 2x, x2 − 2}.

Let T : V → V defined by T (p(x)) = p0 (x).

(a) Find the matrices [T ]β and [T ]β 0 .


(b) Show that [T ]β and [T ]β 0 are similar.
 
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4) Consider the block diagonal matrix A = , where Aii ∈ Mni ×ni (C) for i =
0 A22
1, 2. Then show that
eig(A) = eig(A11 ) ∪ eig(A22 ).

5) Find the eigenvalues, and eigenvectors, algebraic multiplicity and geometric multiplicity
corresponding to each eigenvalue for the following matrices:
   
  1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 1  0 1 5 −10   0 0 0 0 
(i) A =  3 2 0  (ii) B =   1 0 2 0  (iii) C =  0 0
  .
3 4 
3 0 −1
1 0 0 3 0 0 2 1

6) Let A ∈ Mn×n (C). Then A is invertible if and only if 0 ∈


/ eig(A).

7) Let A ∈ Mn×n (C) be invertible. Show that λ ∈ eig(A) implies that 1/λ ∈ eig(A−1 ).

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8) Determine whether the following matrices are diagonalizable.
   
0 1 1 −1 1 0
(i)  1 0 1  (ii)  0 −1 1  .
1 1 0 0 0 2

9) Let Sn ∈ Mn×n (C) be a matrix with each entry of it is equal to 1. Prove that Sn is
diagonalizable.

10) Let A ∈ Mn×m (C) and B ∈ Mm×n (C). Show that AB and BA have the same nonzero
eigenvalues. What about the zero eigenvalues ?

11) Let A ∈ Mn×n (F) be diagonal with characteristic polynomial

(x − c1 )d1 (x − c2 )d2 · · · (x − ck )dk ,

where c1 , . . . , ck ∈ F are distinct. Let V := {B ∈ Mn×n (F) : AB = BA}. Prove that V


is a subspace of Mn×n (F) and dim(V ) = d21 + d22 + · · · + d2k .

12) Let P ∈ L(V ) such that P 2 = P . Then find the eigenvalues of P .

13) Let A ∈ Mn×n (C) and let every nonzero vector in Cn be an eigenvector of A. Then show
that A = αI for some α ∈ C.

14) Let A, B ∈ Mn×n (C). Let B has n distinct eigenvalues and AB = BA. Then show that
A is diagonalizable.

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