Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/prelims/mathematics-i/6/b/iii/solution

If , choose ordinary addition on , giving the additive group of integers. Every power function is the unique identity function on the singleton , so the group action axioms hold:
Thus ordinary addition supplies the required group operation on . Together with ii, existence is equivalent to being the trivial group.

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