Example Find the fundamental matrix of the following system of differential equations..
Answer
Then the eigen values are
.Now we find the eigen vector
corresponds to
.
Now we use Gaussian elimination)
Here
is an arbitrary constant,
,
. Then the vector C is represented by
, where
is an answer.
For the eigen value
, we find the eigen vector.
Then the eigen vector is
. Thus,
is also a solution.Similarly, we find the eigen vector corresponding to
.
Then the eigen vector is
. This shows that
is also a solution.Now
are independent. Thus,the general solution is given by
Here the matrix composed by column vectors
is the fundamental matrix.