Solution

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In the abelianization, the relation becomes . Together with this forces , so
Consequently there are linear characters
where .
The representations from part (i), denoted , are irreducible: the two eigenspaces of are its only invariant lines, and exchanges them. The character of a representation agrees for two parameters exactly when their squares agree, so and there are pairwise nonisomorphic two-dimensional representations. Their squared dimensions sum to
The sum of squares of irreducible degrees proves that no others exist. Hence the complete list is
This is the classification of the Irreducible representations of G6n.

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