Solution

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Both sides are alternating in and in . If either triple repeats an index, both sides vanish. Otherwise each triple is a permutation of ; the determinant of the corresponding permutation matrix is exactly the product of the two permutation signs. Hence
There are nonzero components of , each equal to , so

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