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Past exam of the lie Groups and Differentiable Manifolds course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 3 b iii Solution by
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Use the given torus of independent rotations in mutually orthogonal two-planes and a fixed final axis. A normalizer element permutes the two-plane rotation characters, and on each plane either preserves or reverses its orientation. Its induced action therefore permutes the angle coordinates and changes their signs independently.
Every such signed permutation is realized. Permutations of two-dimensional blocks have determinant one. A reflection in any chosen plane reverses that angle; reflecting the remaining one-dimensional axis as necessary restores total determinant one. The kernel consists precisely of independent plane rotations: commuting with a generic torus element forces preservation of its distinct rotation planes, and the determinant condition then fixes the final axis. Thus the kernel is andThis is the signed permutation group, the Weyl group of type .
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