why we look at A-I and not A
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why we look at A-I and not A
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because all of A's eigenvalues are 1?
why did they desided that one of the vectors is e1
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for generalized eigenvectors, you pick the first eigenvector v1 like you normally do, and continue until you run out (in this case, one is all there is).
ker(A - I) has basis {(3,1,1)} now we want to pick our next generalized eigenvector so that:
solve this for (x,y,z), which should give you (0,-2,-1), which is in ker((A-I)^2), but not in ker(A-I).
do it again, and you should get e1 as the 3rd generalized eigenbasis vector.