Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-138/6/b/ii/solution

Put . For an algebra on which a group acts by conjugation, write
for its transfer ideal of conjugation-fixed elements. In the diagram, , , the upper map is , and is the restriction of from to . Since normalizes both and , the lower map lands in .
For , let act on the left cosets . A coset is fixed precisely when , hence, because the two groups have the same order, precisely when . Every nonfixed orbit has size divisible by . Moreover, after applying , all summands indexed by one -orbit are equal: conjugation by an element of acts trivially on . Those orbits therefore contribute zero in characteristic , while the fixed cosets contribute the trace over . Consequently
This is the Brauer morphism and relative trace identity, so the diagram commutes.

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