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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 4 4 c Solution by
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Projection onto the subring in part (b), along the two-sided ideal, is the Brauer homomorphism:It is a unital algebra homomorphism because it is the quotient by that ideal followed by the displayed subring identification.
Put . The projection is -equivariant, since preserves the centralizer. Its restricted kernel isEquivalently it is spanned by the sums of the -conjugation orbits on disjoint from . Normality of in ensures that an -orbit either lies wholly inside that centralizer or wholly outside it.
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