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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 109 3 b Solution by
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Identify the additive group with the finite field , where . The sets and each have size , and the field has odd characteristic. The Snevily matching theorem for an elementary abelian group states precisely that for two -element subsets of the additive group of such a field, there is a bijection for which the sums are pairwise distinct.
For context, its polynomial proof antisymmetrizes the Vandermonde polynomialover all orderings of . The coefficient furnished by the Dyson constant-term identity is a nonzero multiple of ; it cannot vanish because . Therefore at least one ordering makes the Vandermonde product nonzero, which says exactly that
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