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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 4 18G a Solution by
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Give the action , where is a row vector. Substitution preserves homogeneous degree, and composition agrees with matrix multiplication, so this is a complex representation of SU(2) group. The diagonal torus acts on with weight ; these weights are distinct.
A nonzero invariant subspace is invariant under the torus, so finite-dimensional Fourier projection onto its weight spaces supplies a nonzero monomial. Differentiating the group action and complexifying supplies the operators and . Their repeated application moves between every successive monomial, with nonzero coefficients until an endpoint is reached:The invariant subspace therefore contains the whole monomial basis. ThusFor this is the one-dimensional trivial representation. Torus weight projections are legitimate because an invariant complex subspace is closed in finite dimension.
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