Mathematics-Online lexicon: Characteristic Polynomial

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	Characteristic Polynomial

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The eigenvalues of matrix

are the zeros of the characteristic polynomial

$\displaystyle p_A(\lambda) = \operatorname{det}(A - \lambda E) \,.$

Example:

automatically generated 6/25/2018