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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 103 2 b ii Solution by
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First exclude the short patterns and in the joint spectrum. In the first pattern, the local spectral rules for Young–Jucys–Murphy elements make act by and by on the same simultaneous eigenvector. The two sides of the braid relation in a Coxeter group then act by opposite signs. The second pattern gives the same contradiction with signs reversed.
Now induct on the length of a spectral vector. A prefix of length is spectral for : decompose the restricted group representation and retain a nonzero component of the simultaneous eigenvector. If differed by neither nor from every earlier entry, move it left using the allowed adjacent interchanges. Encountering an equal entry would contradict the distinctness of consecutive eigenvalues. Otherwise it reaches the first position, forcing . For the original first entry was also zero, so an equal entry would indeed have been encountered. ThusThis argument uses only the stated local rules. In particular, iterating the result from also shows that all coordinates are integers.
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