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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 4 2 b Solution by
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Let be an irreducible -module with character , and let be its -isotypic component. It is invariant under the inertia group of a character . The sum of its -translates is a nonzero -submodule, so irreducibility makes it all of . Translates associated with different cosets have distinct -types and hence form a direct sum:To see that is irreducible over , let be a -submodule. Then is a nonzero -submodule of , hence equals . Its -isotypic part is exactly , whereas the corresponding part of is . Thus .
Let be the irreducible character of as a -module. It lies over , and the natural map of induced representationsis an isomorphism: it identifies each summand with the corresponding , and these summands are direct and exhaust . Consequently , proving surjectivity of induction on the stated sets.
For injectivity, the construction in (a) shows that the -isotypic component of is exactly , with its original -action. Isomorphic induced -modules therefore have isomorphic intrinsic -components as -modules. Since complex representations with the same character are isomorphic, forces . Hence the Clifford correspondence is the bijectionwhose inverse takes the character of the -isotypic component.
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