Exercise 5.1.16

Answers

1.
Just as the Hint, we have
tr(P−1AP) = tr(PP−1A) = tr(A).
2.
We may define the trace of a linear operator on a finite-dimensional vector space to be the trace of its matrix representation. It’s well-defined due to the previous exercise.
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