IMC 2017 · Problem 1

Day 124th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Determine all complex numbers λ\lambda for which there exist a positive integer nn and a real n×nn \times n matrix AA such that A2=ATA^2 = A^T and λ\lambda is an eigenvalue of AA.

Official solution

Hidden so you can work on the problem first.

Proposed by Alexandr Bolbot, Novosibirsk State University.