Let $$A=\left[\begin{matrix} 2 & -i \\ i & 2 \end{matrix}\right],$$
Show that $U_1 = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\Psi_1+i\Psi_2)$ and $U_2 = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\Psi_1-i\Psi_2)$ are orthonormal vectors of A and find the eigenvalues.
So I started off by stating that $Au=\lambda u$ So we should calculate:
$AU_1=\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\Psi_1+i\Psi_2)$$\left[\begin{matrix} 2 & -i \\ i & 2 \end{matrix}\right],$ but I seem to be drawing a blank as how to do this? Can anyone please help me?
I think I can work from there, it's just this calculation I am struggling with.
Thanks
The characteristic polynomial is:
$(2-\lambda)^2-1=\lambda^2-4\lambda+4-1=\lambda^2-4\lambda+3=(\lambda-3)(\lambda-1)=0$
So $\lambda=3,1$ but the only case where the eigenvectors of a matrix, are the conjugates of each other, are when we have complex eigenvalues.