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Daily Trap · No. 2

Inner Product Spaces and Forms › Quadratic forms, positive definiteness, Sylvester's law

Let Q(x, y, z) = 2x² + 2y² + 2z² + 2xy + 2yz + 2zx. Which of the following are true?

The matrix of Q has eigenvalues 4, 1, 1.

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