Paper 4, Section II, G
Let be an -dimensional -vector space and linear transformations. Suppose is invertible and diagonalisable, and for some real number .
(i) Show that is nilpotent, i.e. some positive power of is 0 .
(ii) Suppose that there is a non-zero vector with and . Determine the diagonal form of .
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