Practice question · True or false
An eigenvector keeps its direction under the matrix but may be stretched, shrunk or flipped.
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- , what can be?
- Any scalar, including negative.
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True
Why
True. preserves the direction and scales by , so the vector may lengthen, shorten or reverse; only leaves it untouched. That preserved direction is what makes eigenvectors the axes along which repeated application behaves simply, the basis of PageRank and PCA.
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