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Past exam of the introduction to representation theory course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b Solution by
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For each , count the solutions of . Once a solution is fixed, every solution is uniquely with , the centralizer of . Thus each contributes to the sum in part (a).
The orbit-stabilizer theorem for the conjugation action gives . The intersection is the disjoint union of the conjugacy classes , and the character is constant on each such conjugacy class. HenceIf the intersection is empty, the empty sum gives zero. This is the conjugacy-class formula for an induced character.
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