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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 2 19I b iv Solution by
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The subgroups and each have order eight, their elements commute across the two subgroups, and their intersection is exactly . ThereforeSince , the abelianization has order and is generated by the four commuting involutions represented by . It is isomorphic to , so it has sixteen one-dimensional complex representations, obtained by independently sending to and sending to .
These characters contribute to the sum of squares of irreducible degrees. The given irreducible representation has degree four and contributes another . Part (a) and show that no other irreducible representations exist. Thus the complete list is the sixteen linear characters and the given four-dimensional representation.
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