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Past exam of the algebra course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 3 c ii Solution by
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True. If every simple module over were one-dimensional, the Maschke theorem and the Artin–Wedderburn theorem would make a product of copies of , hence commutative. But its basis elements multiply as in , so commutativity of implies commutativity of . This contradicts the assumption. Therefore a non-Abelian finite group has a simple module of dimension greater than one.
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