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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 140 2 b Solution by
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Use the decomposition into Lagrangian subspaces from part (a). The bilinear form pairs and nondegenerately: a vector in either summand annihilating the other already annihilates its own summand and hence all of , so is zero.
Choose a basis of . The linear mapis an linear isomorphism. Let correspond to the dual basis of the . Then , and the pairings within each summand vanish. Thus
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