A is diagonalizable if there is a basis for R^n consisting of eigenvectors of an nxn matrix A.
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A matrix A is said to be diagonalizable if there exists an invertible matrix P and a diagonal matrix D such that A = PDP^(-1). This means that we can express the matrix A as a product of a diagonal matrix (with the eigenvalues on the diagonal) and an invertible Show more…
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