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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2021 Paper 2 8 d Solution by
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The subgroup generated by is , a Klein four-group. It is not normal in . Indeed,For the off-diagonal entries are nonzero, whereas every member of is diagonal. Thus this conjugate of is outside , givingThe normal subgroup in part (c) is the continuous boost subgroup; choosing one representative from each of its cosets does not make those representatives a normal subgroup.
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