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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics IV resit 2 b ii Solution by
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A possible center must be a fixed point, so . Let and . The determinant iswhen is not an integer multiple of . The unique center is thereforeThe fixed point equation implies , whenceRelative to , this is precisely a planar rotation through . This also explains the excluded case: when , is a translation, with no fixed point unless .
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