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Both in classical and quantum physics, and in several branches of mathematics, it is hard to overestimate the role that the notion of diagonal action of a linear map has. The aim of this chapter is to introduce this topic which will be crucial in all the following chapters.
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Landi, G., Zampini, A. (2018). Endomorphisms and Diagonalization. In: Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78361-1_9
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