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Binomial theorem for commuting matrices

If square matrices

A

and

B

commute, then

(A + B)^{n} = \sum_{k = 0}^{n} (k n) A^{n - k} B^{k} .

The usual proof works because commutativity allows words with the same numbers of

A

and

B

factors to be collected.

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