Suppose that $\det\left(A-(1+\beta)I\right) = 0$ where $A$ is invertible matrix and $\beta$ is some positive real number. Can the biggest eigenvalue of $A$ smaller than $1+\beta$?
Eigenvalue of $A$ being smaller than some real number
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0@user108903 Thanks for that! I feel a bit silly now. – 2012-12-16
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Well you're assuming that $1+ \beta$ is an eigenvalue, so (assuming all the eigenvalues are real), certainly the largest one is larger than this.