Abstract: The aim of this note is to compute the Grothendieck group of the category of endomorphisms. This computation mostly plays with linear algebra. The main result is that in , every endomorphism is uniquely characterized by and its characteristic polynomial . This computation was due to [1]. We will explain how to think about this computation, the reason for certain constructions and the “diagonalization” in this computation.
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