Matrix spaces with bounded number of eigenvalues (Q2564896)

Let \(\mathcal V\) be the linear space of \(n\) by \(n\) complex matrices with the property that the cardinality of the spectrum of every \(A\in{\mathcal V}\) is at most \(k\). The maximum of the dimension of such spaces is determined by \(k\in \{1,2,n-1\}\) and the structure of the corresponding linear spaces is described.