Vectors shared by two different eigenspaces
Question
A matrix of size has two eigenvalues , with eigenspaces and . How many vectors lie in ? Answer if there are infinitely many.
Short answer
. A common vector satisfies , so and therefore . The intersection is just the zero vector.
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