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• To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
• Subject: Eigensystems
• From: billl at helmholtz.sdsc.edu (Bill Lytton)
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 10:21:25 PDT

It may be a feature but it looks like a bug to me:

Eigenvalues[mat] does not return the list in the same order as
Eigensystem[mat][[1]]

This change in order means that the result of Eigenvalues[] cannot be
used together with Eigenvectors[] i.e.

mat.Transpose[Eigenvectors[mat]] != 
	Transpose[Eigenvectors[mat]].DiagonalMatrix[Eigenvalues[mat]]

Eigensystem[] is internally consistent.

Bill
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