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.