Section 7.6: Multiple Eigenvalue Solutions 457
Scalar components
31. We have the single eigenvalue
= 1 of multiplicity 4. Starting with
v3 = [1 0 0 0]T, we calculate 23
()
vAIv and 12
(),
vAIv0
and find
that 1
().
AIv0 Therefore {v1, v2, v3} is a length 3 chain based on the ordinary
eigenvector v1. Next, the eigenvector equation ( )
AIv0 yields the second linearly
independent eigenvector v4 = [0 1 3 0]T. With
32. Here we find that the matrix A has five linearly independent eigenvectors:
= 2: eigenvectors v
1 = [8 0 –3 1 0]T and v2 = [1 0 0 0 3]T
= 3: eigenvectors v
3 = [3 –2 –1 0 0]T, v4 = [2 –2 0 –3 0]T,
v
5 = [1 –1 0 0 3]T