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Question: How to Diagonalize a Matrix with Maple?

Question:How to Diagonalize a Matrix with Maple?

Jjjones98 45
April 10 2018
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I am working on a quantum mechanics problem and would like to get a 4x4 matrix A into diagonal form such that A=UDU^{-1}.  Basically I just need to know the values of D and U required to make A a diagonal matrix (where D is diagonal) as I can then use it to do an explicit calculation for a matrix exponential.  As it is the matrix is not diagonal, so I cannot use the explicit expression for the matrix exponential.  Is there a code with Maple that can calculate D and U simply?

The matrix is 4 x 4 and has elements 

1 0 0 1

0 -1 1 0

0 1 -1 0

1 0 0 1
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