Solution

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The conjugacy classes are specified by cycle type, with sizes for . The trivial and sign representations give the first two rows. The permutation representation on four letters contains a trivial line; its orthogonal complement has character equal to the number of fixed letters minus one. Tensoring that representation by the sign gives another row. Finally the quotient supplies the two-dimensional standard representation. The resulting table is
With the class-size-weighted inner product, these characters have norm one and are pairwise orthogonal, so all are irreducible and inequivalent. Their squared dimensions sum to , proving completeness.

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