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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2024 1 c Solution by
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There is one complex irreducible representation for each conjugacy class, hence three. The trivial representation and sign representation are distinct and one-dimensional. The sum of squares of irreducible representation dimensions leavesCall the remaining irreducible representation . The permutation representation on has character equal to the number of fixed objects, namely on the ordered conjugacy classes . Removing its constant-vector trivial representation gives , whose character inner product with itself is one. This constructs and gives the character tableTo obtain every Clebsch-Gordan decomposition of group representations, multiply the characters pointwise. In particular, , andThus all ordered pairs of irreducible representations are covered by
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