Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-138/3/b/solution

Write for a primitive idempotent . The coefficient-of-identity form makes a symmetric algebra. Associativity of this nondegenerate form identifies the orthogonal complement of in with the elements annihilated by , namely . It therefore induces a nondegenerate -invariant pairing between
and . Both are simple by projectivity and part (a), and the symmetric form has identity Nakayama permutation. Consequently the head and socle of an indecomposable projective group-algebra module satisfy

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