Jodan Normal Form if geometric mult. < alg. mult

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Let's say we have a matrix $A\in M_{n,n}(\mathbb R)$.

Assume tht for the eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ we have:

Algebraic Multiplicty: 4

Geometric Multiplicity: 2

Is then the correspodning jordan block alwas the sum of two blocks of size 2 or is it also possible that we have one block of size 1 and one block of size 3?