If matrices A and B commute, then they have a common eigenvector.
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I suppose we are talking complex numbers, where every matrix surely has an eigenvector.
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This proviso (i.e., that the matrices in question have entries drawn from an algebraically closed field) was not, however, included in the original statement.
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