trouble with a differential equation system

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I'm required to solve this system through the variation of parameters method: $$\begin{bmatrix}x'\\y'\\z'\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}1&1&0\\1&1&0\\0&0&3\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}x\\y\\z\end{bmatrix}+\begin{bmatrix}e^t\\e^{2t}\\e^{3t}\end{bmatrix}$$ I found its eigenvalues, which are $0,2,3$. I got some problems with $\lambda=3$. The first two equations did not match and the last one was undetermined.

Anyway, if anyone can save me, I'd appreciate it.

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Given

$$\begin{bmatrix}x'\\y'\\z'\end{bmatrix}=Ax + g(t) = \begin{bmatrix}1&1&0\\1&1&0\\0&0&3\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}x\\y\\z\end{bmatrix}+\begin{bmatrix}e^t\\e^{2t}\\e^{3t}\end{bmatrix}$$

We find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors as

$$\lambda_1 = 0, v_1 = (-1,1,0), \lambda_2 = 2, v_2 = (1,1,0), \lambda_3 = 3, v_3 = (0,0,1)$$

Using Variation of Parameters Example 2, the complimentary solution is

$$x_c =c_1 e^{0t} \begin{bmatrix}-1\\1\\0\end{bmatrix}+ c_2 e^{2 t}\begin{bmatrix}1\\1\\0\end{bmatrix} + c_3 e^{3t}\begin{bmatrix}0\\0\\1\end{bmatrix}$$

We have

$$X = \begin{bmatrix}-1&e^{2t}&0\\1&e^{2t}&0\\0&0&e^{3t}\end{bmatrix}, X^{-1} = \begin{bmatrix} -\dfrac{1}{2} & \dfrac{1}{2} & 0 \\ \dfrac{e^{-2 t}}{2} & \dfrac{e^{-2 t}}{2} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & e^{-3 t} \\ \end{bmatrix}, X^{-1} g = \begin{bmatrix}\dfrac{e^{2 t}}{2}-\dfrac{e^t}{2}\\\dfrac{e^{-t}}{2}+\dfrac{1}{2}\\1\end{bmatrix}$$

Next

$$\int X^{-1}g~ dt = \begin{bmatrix}\dfrac{1}{4} e^t \left(e^t-2\right)\\\dfrac{1}{2} \left(t-e^{-t}\right)\\t\end{bmatrix}$$

We can now write the particular solution

$$x_p = X \int X^{-1}g~ dt $$

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The final solution is

$$x(t) = x_c(t) + x_p(t)$$

Note: It is worth noting that it is easier to solve for $z(t)$ straight off since it is decoupled and this reduces the problem to a $2 \times 2$ (try it).

Update

From the previous note, here is the process.

For $z(t)$, we have a linear equation and can solve it using an Integrating factor

$$z' = 3 z + e^{3t} \implies z(t) = e^{3t}(c + t)$$

We can now write our system as

$$\begin{bmatrix}x'\\y'\end{bmatrix}=Ax + g(t) = \begin{bmatrix}1&1\\1&1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}x\\y\end{bmatrix}+\begin{bmatrix}e^t\\e^{2t}\end{bmatrix}$$

We now solve for $x$ and $y$ from this reduced system.