IMC 2011 · Problem 2

Day 118th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Does there exist a real 3×33 \times 3 matrix AA such that tr(A)=0\operatorname{tr}(A) = 0 and A2+At=IA^2 + A^t = I? (tr(A)\operatorname{tr}(A) denotes the trace of AA, AtA^t is the transpose of AA, and II is the identity matrix.)

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