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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2017 Paper 2 10 b Solution by
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Use the identity relation as printed in the PDF, . Since , multiplying on the right by gives . Alsobecause are involutions. Thus and commute, and so does their product with either of them. Therefore the group is Abelian, and is the Klein four-group.
Each conjugacy class is a singleton. Over the complex numbers every irreducible representation of a finite abelian group is one-dimensional. Choose independent signs and ; the relations force and . Hence the complete character table isThese four distinct one-dimensional representations exhaust the irreducible possibilities: there are four conjugacy classes, and their squared dimensions already sum to . The rows also satisfy character orthogonality. The local transcription damages the final symbol in the defining relation; the PDF makes the identity unambiguous.
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