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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2018 2 b Solution by
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In a one-dimensional representation, the relation implies , so . Independently . These give four irreducible representationsA two-dimensional representation is obtained by restricting the given matrices to the plane:The eigenvalues of are and . Its two eigenlines are interchanged by , so neither is invariant under the whole group. Thus is a complex irreducible representation.
Taking traces gives the character table, with class sizes included for the character inner product:For example , and its inner product with each one-dimensional row is . The four one-dimensional rows are mutually orthonormal by direct weighted summation. Their squared dimensions sum to , and there are five rows for five conjugacy classes. This proves completeness of the list.
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