A Self-Adjoint Operator on a Finite-Dimensional Space has a Unit Eigenvector

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Reason: Initial publication. A self-adjoint operator on a finite-dimensional nonzero complex inner product space has a unit eigenvector with a real eigenvalue, obtained by maximising the Rayleigh quotient over the compact unit sphere. · 719 chars · 8 deps · depth 11

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Let $V$ together with $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle$ be a complex inner product space with zero vector $0_{V}$ , and suppose that $V$ is finite-dimensional and $V\ne\{0_{V}\}$ . Let $T$ be a linear operator on $V$ that is self-adjoint.

Then there are a unit vector $x_{0}\in V$ and a real number $\lambda$ such that $x_{0}$ is an eigenvector of $T$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$ .

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