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Past exam of the algebra course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 3 c i Solution by
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True. Every group of order four is Abelian: if it has an element of order four it is cyclic; otherwise every nonidentity element has order two and , while , so .
Over , the Maschke theorem and the Artin–Wedderburn theorem giveSince is Abelian, this algebra is commutative, forcing every . Its dimension is four, so . Each factor contributes one simple module; therefore there are exactly four up to isomorphism.
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