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In
mathematics
, in the field of
linear algebra
, a scalar is an eigenvalue of an
n
-by-
n
matrix
if satisfies the
characteristic equation
:
where I
n
is the
Identity matrix
.
For example, given a matrix P:
This would be the Characteristic Equation for P:
The resulting polynomial is the
Characteristic polynomial
.