Could we get different solutions for eigenVectors from a matrix?

Question

My purpose is to find a eigenvectors of a matrix. In Matlab, there is a [V,D] = eig(M) to get the eigenvectors of matrix by using: [V,D] = eig(M).

Answer 1

I completely agree with Mr.Colin T Bowers, that MATHEMATICA does the normalization so that last value of EigenVectors become one. Using MATLAB if anybody want to produce EigenVectors result like MATHEMATICA then we can tell MATLAB Normalize the last value of EigenVectors result to 1 using following normalization step.

M = [1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9];

[EigVec, EigVal] = eig(M);

sf=1./EigVec(end,:); %get the last value of each eigen vector and inverse for scale factor

sf=repmat(sf,size(EigVec,1),1); % Repeat Scale value of each element in the vector

Normalize_EigVec=EigVec.*sf;

Normalize_EigVec =

    0.2833   -1.2833    1.0000
    0.6417   -0.1417   -2.0000
    1.0000    1.0000    1.0000