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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 3 5 ii Solution by
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Write the two arrow matrices as . The base change action on quiver representations sends them to . Starting from yields precisely the pairs with both matrices invertible: given such a pair, choose , , . HenceThis is a nonempty Zariski-open subset of the irreducible affine space , so its closure is the entire representation space. Its boundary in that closure is .
The rank classification of a two-step linear map says an orbit is determined by . Indeed, the six interval multiplicities from the elementary decomposition areThey are nonnegative exactly when and . Apart from the open orbit , there are nine boundary orbits. Put and ; representatives areThe two rank-one/rank-one cases differ by whether ; the individual arrow ranks alone do not distinguish them.
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