Putnam 2015 A6
- Session A
Let be a positive integer. Suppose that , , and are matrices with real entries such that , and such that and have the same characteristic polynomial. Prove that for every matrix with real entries.
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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