Exercise 7.2.12

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Denote Dk to be the diagonal consisting of those ij-entries such that i j = k. So D0 is the original diagonal. If A is upper triangular matrix whose entries in D0 are all zero, we have the fact that the entries of Ap in Dk, 0 k < p, are all zero. So A must be nilpotent.

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