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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 138 1 b Solution by
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Put . A finitely generated module over is finite-dimensional over , and multiplication by is a nilpotent linear map with . Its Jordan normal form exists over because its minimal polynomial is a power of . Each Jordan block has size and is the cyclic module . HenceA submodule of is an ideal of , and its inverse image is an ideal of the principal ideal domain containing . The only possibilities are with . Thus all submodules form the chainEvery successive quotient is the one-dimensional simple module on which acts as zero. This is its unique composition series, so is a uniserial module and is an indecomposable representation: two nonzero direct summands would be incomparable submodules. Only is simple.
For of order , the group algebra satisfiessince in characteristic . Consequently, up to isomorphism, are precisely the finite-dimensional indecomposable modules, and . The finite-dimensional convention follows from the finite-generation hypothesis; “exactly” counts isomorphism classes.
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