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Exercise 8.D.1
Find the characteristic polynomial and the minimal polynomial of the operator N in Example 8.53.
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Proof. By Exercise 11 in section 8B the characteristic polynomial is and by 8.46 this is a polynomial multiple of the minimal polynomial. Since , it follows that the minimal polynomial of is . □