In a [previous question](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/207452/eigenvectors-as-continuous-functions-of-matrix-diagonal-perturbations) I asked about the stability of eigenvalues with respect to diagonal perturbations. Following results from the book Matrix Analysis (by Roger A. Horn & Charles R. Johnson) the results are quite nice for symmetric matrices. However, they explicitly say that this is not the case for eigenvectors and they give the counter example $\begin{pmatrix} 1& \varepsilon \\ \varepsilon & 1\end{pmatrix}$.


In what I have in mind, only diagonal perturbations are involved, so the counterexample given above is not relevant. I have the following question:



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1. Is there a simple counter example to the stability of eigenvectors in this case? (The eigenvectors corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of $A+tD$ do not converge towards the eigenvectors of $A$, associated to $\lambda\_1$ as $t\to 0$.)
2. If there is no counterexample, do you have a reference for such a stability result?



Stability of eigenvectors for diagonal perturbations
Simple eigenvalues depend smoothly on the matrix by the implicit function theorem
applied to the characteristic polynomial (parameterized by the symmetric matrix).
For the general situation see [this paper](http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~michor/DC-perturb.pdf) and references therein. 


