Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/ia/paper-3/8b/b/solution

Take the half-turn about the -axis, represented by the rotation matrix
It is an orthogonal matrix with determinant , and it fixes the -axis while reversing both perpendicular coordinates. Direct substitution gives , , and . A linear map that permutes the four vertices also preserves their convex hull, which is the solid tetrahedron. Hence this rotation matrix leaves invariant. Its axis joins the midpoints of the two opposite edges and .

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