Solution

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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 is
Equivalently 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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