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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b Solution by
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The trivial representation and sign of a permutation giveThey are one-dimensional representations, hence irreducible representations. Their characters, in the conjugacy class order of solution, areThese are the only one-dimensional representations. All transpositions are conjugate, so they have the same scalar image in any one-dimensional representation; since a transposition squares to the identity, . Transpositions generate the symmetric group, fixing the whole representation once is chosen.
By the sum of squares of irreducible representation dimensions, the three remaining dimensions satisfy , with each . No can be at least , since . Thus the only possible dimensions are
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