4.I.1B

Linear Algebra
Part IB, 2005

Define what it means for an n×nn \times n complex matrix to be unitary or Hermitian. Show that every eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix is real. Show that every eigenvalue of a unitary matrix has absolute value 1 .

Show that two eigenvectors of a Hermitian matrix that correspond to different eigenvalues are orthogonal, using the standard inner product on Cn\mathbf{C}^{n}.