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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 3 2 f ii Solution by
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Adjoin the label . Inversion on the projective line, with zero and infinity interchanged, isThe label is fixed. Set , where the subscript one denotes the original point label, namely field zero. Then and , so normalizes .
For outside , we have . On the projective line,The equality uses characteristic two and is valid as an equality of fractional linear transformations, including poles and infinity. ThusAll conditions of the double-coset criterion for a one-point extension hold. Therefore is a one-point extension, with . Its stabilizer subgroup is sharply two-transitive, so its action on nine points is sharply three-transitive.
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