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Engineering Analysis/Spectral Decomposition
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If λi are the n distinct eigenvalues of matrix A, and vi are the corresponding n distinct eigenvectors, and if wi are the n distinct left-eigenvectors, then the matrix A can be represented as a sum:
this is known as the spectral decomposition of A.