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What will be eigne vectors of 2x 2 symmetric Toeplitz For a symmetric Teopliz 2x2 matrix I took following steps taking a matrix A = |2 1| |1 2| now their `eigen values = 3 and 1` when I tried to solve for v11 and v12 for eigen value 3 I stuck at `v11 = v12` if I take `v1 = c` then eigen vector is v11 = c |1| v12 |1| Now how to find c? I know I am missing a little concept here please help. * * * I checked with MATLAB it is showing following result of v1 v1 = |0.7071| |0.7071| that is showing c = sqrt(1/2)

You cannot find $c$. Eigenvectors are not unique. If $v$ is an eigenvector of $A$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$, then $cv$ is an eigenvector of $A$ for any $c\
eq 0$ with the same eigenvalue since

$$ A(cv) = c\cdot Av = c\cdot \lambda v \Longrightarrow \lambda (cv).$$

At best you can determine $v$ up to a constant multiple. You _could_ get a unique eigenvector if you required it to be a unit vector, but this only works if the eigenvalues have geometric multiplicity one. Otherwise there is inherent non-uniqueness since the eigenvalue (by definition of having geometric multiplicity greater than one) would correspond to multiple linearly independent eigenvectors.

I struggled with this myself for a while in undergrad. It's probably not that uncommon a mental disconnect, especially when first learning linear algebra.

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