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I am looking for an elegant proof of the following: Let $A,B \in \mathbb{K}^{n \times n}$ be diagonalizable matrices, and $P_A, P_B$ their characteristic polynomials. Then:

$A, B$ similar $\Leftrightarrow$ $P_A = P_B$

I am somehow stuck at this.

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