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Closes #1174

eigen is in fact guaranteed to return normalized eigenvectors in the general case, and orthonormal eigenvectors in the Hermitian case, and the docstring should state so.

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jishnub pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2025
Closes #1174

`eigen` is in fact guaranteed to return normalized eigenvectors in the
general case, and orthonormal eigenvectors in the Hermitian case, and
the docstring should state so.

(cherry picked from commit c4a477f)
@jishnub jishnub mentioned this pull request Jun 5, 2025
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jishnub added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 13, 2025
Backported PRs:
- [x] #1364 <!-- clarify eigen docstring -->
- [x] #1363 <!-- Change default symmetriceigen algorithm back to
RobustRepresentations -->

Non-merged PRs with backport label:
- [ ] #1365 <!-- Add docstring to the `rank(::QRPivoted)` method -->
- [ ] #1305 <!-- Bounds-checking in triangular indexing branches -->
@dkarrasch dkarrasch removed the backport 1.12 Change should be backported to release-1.12 label Aug 10, 2025
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