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Symmetric Matrices & Quadratic Forms · Hard problem

The quadratic form q(x,y)=2x2+2xy+2y2q(x, y) = 2x^2 + 2xy + 2y^2 has matrix (2112)\begin{pmatrix}2&1\\1&2\end{pmatrix}. Compute the MINIMUM of qq on the unit circle x2+y2=1x^2 + y^2 = 1.