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The Cayley–Hamilton Theorem

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We recall that this famed theorem of linear algebra is stated.

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Eğecioğlu, Ö., Garsia, A.M. (2021). The Cayley–Hamilton Theorem. In: Lessons in Enumerative Combinatorics. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 290. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71250-1_5

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