Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/b/8/solution

The degree-sum formula for irreducible characters gives
The number of linear characters is the order of the abelianization, so and . The intersection of the kernels of all linear characters is . Consequently are nonidentity elements of this order-seven subgroup and have order seven. The images of under a displayed linear character have order three, so their orders are divisible by three. Lagrange's theorem leaves three or twenty-one; an element of order twenty-one would make cyclic, contradicting its degree-three irreducible characters. Therefore
The center is trivial. A nontrivial proper center would have order three or seven, giving a cyclic quotient and hence an abelian group, again a contradiction. Thus a centralizer of a nonidentity element is proper. It has order three for an order-three element, and seven for an order-seven element. The class sizes are therefore .
Column orthogonality says . For , the three linear characters already contribute three, so the remaining two entries must both vanish. Orthogonality with the identity column says for . At this gives , so , using . Similarly . Thus the completed table is
Here , and . These relations, together with , verify all weighted row orthogonality relations and the centralizer column norms.

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