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Singular Values & the SVD · Hard problem

Let a=(122)a = \begin{pmatrix}1\\2\\2\end{pmatrix}, b=(040)b = \begin{pmatrix}0\\4\\0\end{pmatrix} and A=abT+baTA = ab^{T} + ba^{T}. Find the nuclear norm ∥A∥∗=∑σi\|A\|_* = \sum\sigma_i of AA.