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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 103 1 c vi Solution by
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The printed uniqueness assertion has an exceptional case at . To locate it, use the two double cosetsAn -bimodule-equivariant set map is determined by and . Equivariance requires andbecause and commutes with this subgroup. These conditions are also sufficient: define and . Changing the double-coset expression only inserts an element of , which commutes with .
For , the center of and this centralizer are both trivial. For the latter, a commuting permutation must fix the unique point outside and lie in the center of ; that center is trivial when . Therefore , giving deletion. For , however, . The choiceis well defined and satisfies all the printed equivariance conditions, but sends to rather than to the identity. Uniqueness holds for ; it is false at as printed. Even requiring the map to restrict to the identity on does not remove this counterexample.
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