Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2013/iii/paper-3/3/c/ii/solution

For a block-diagonal element, form preservation says
Given any , the first equation uniquely determines
With dual bases ordered in matching rather than reversed order, the same relation is simply . This is the contragredient action on the paired space .
The second equation independently allows every . The map taking a block-diagonal element to is a group isomorphism, with inverse . Thus

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