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Some properties of powers of 3 x 3 matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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For the 3 x 3 matrix A = [a ij], the trace t of A is the sum of its main-diagonal entries:
The characteristic equation of A is
a cubic equation in λ which can be written as
where Δ is the determinant of A and
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