Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/iii/paper-1/2/b/i/solution

Let , so and . Multiplication gives
The nilpotence also gives for every nonnegative integer , since all higher binomial terms vanish. Hence, for each positive integer ,
These are unipotent matrices in SL2R. The integer is positive, since the displayed diagonal matrix is undefined at .

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