Euclidean space/Isometry/Structure/Fact

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Structure theorem for isometries

Let

be an isometry on the Euclidean vector space .

Then is an

orthogonal direct sum

of -invariant linear subspaces,

where the are one-dimensional, and the are two-dimensional. The restriction of to the is the identity, the restriction to is the negative identity, and the restriction to is a rotation without eigenvalue.