Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/prelims/mathematics-i/2/b/i/solution

Use basis extension to choose a basis of the vector space over the finite field . The condition fixes the first value of a linear functional; its remaining values are arbitrary. There are such linear maps, exactly one of which is zero. Hence the required number is
For this is zero, as it should be: vanishing at a basis vector then forces the entire linear functional to vanish.

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