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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 3 6 c Solution by
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Set in part (b). The quotient has dimension four and a nondegenerate alternating form. The coordinate action therefore definesProve it is faithful before comparing orders. If a permutation lies in the kernel of a group homomorphism, it fixes the quotient class of each two-element subset . That class has exactly the two representatives and . Their cardinalities are two and four. A coordinate permutation preserves cardinality, so it must fix itself, not exchange it with its complement. Thus it fixes every two-element subset. Intersecting the fixed sets and shows it fixes each singleton , so it is the identity. Hence is injective.
By part (a),An injection between finite groups of equal order is surjective. Choosing a symplectic basis of identifies the form with the standard one, soThis realizes the exceptional isomorphism through a concrete binary permutation module. Equality of orders alone would not establish it; the faithful form-preserving action supplies the required group homomorphism.
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