Solution

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Use the conjugacy class order of solution. The defining representation has character
Its character inner product with itself is , proving that it is an irreducible representation. There is also a direct invariant subspace argument: has two distinct coordinate eigenspaces, and exchanges them, so no line is invariant under both.
Let denote the one-dimensional representation with and . Then and . The complete character table is
The four scalar rows obey character orthogonality, and the dimensions exhaust the group order as established in solution.

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