Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/3/c/iv/solution

True; there are exactly five. On a simple module, the central element acts as zero: its image is a submodule, and surjectivity would contradict . The nilpotent central elements annihilate simple modules argument shows that the action factors through
by the Chinese remainder theorem. Therefore the simple modules are one-dimensional with
This also rules out hypothetical infinite-dimensional simple modules, rather than counting only finite-dimensional ones.

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