Eigenvalues of a 30 by 30 matrix with constant off-diagonal
Question
Let be the matrix whose diagonal entries all equal and whose off-diagonal entries all equal . It has exactly two distinct eigenvalues , with geometric multiplicities . Writing and , compute .
Short answer
. Write where is the all-ones matrix, whose eigenvalues are (once, eigenvector of ones) and ( times). So has eigenvalue with multiplicity and with multiplicity ( is symmetric, so these are geometric). Then and (the order does not matter).
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