Wednesday, August 3, 2011

How do you find an eignevalue for a 3 x3 matrix with an unknown number and it must equal a non-zero integer?

Your question is pretty vague, but you can compute the characteristic polynomial treating the unknown entry in the matrix as a constant. You can then hopefully figure out which values of the constant give a non-zero integer root. The details depend entirely on the problem.

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