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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2020 2 a Solution by
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Here the star means entrywise complex conjugation, not Hermitian conjugation. Put and . Since and ,The generators are , and . Moving every occurrence of to the right using reduces every word to or with . The three diagonal matrices are distinct, as are the three off-diagonal matrices, soFor an explicit group isomorphism, send to and to in the symmetric group , composing permutations from right to left. These permutations satisfy the same relations and generate . The normal forms above then give an isomorphism; in particular , and .
Conjugation by exchanges with , and conjugation by cycles the three reflections. The conjugacy classes are thereforeTheir sizes are , respectively. They correspond to the identity, three-cycles and transpositions in .
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