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Although there is an extensive literature dealing with the location of characteristic roots of matrices, the problem of estimating the maximum distance between two characteristic roots of a given matrix does not appear to have attracted much attention. In the present note we shall be concerned with this problem.
page 127 note † That is, A commutes with its transposed conjugate A*.
page 128 note † I am indebted to Mr. A. R. Curtis for suggesting a simplification in my original proof of the lemma.
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