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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2023 Paper 2 9 b Solution by
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LetThe product of any two distinct nonidentity elements is the third, and each squares to , so is a Klein four-group. Conjugating a double transposition simply relabels its letters, keeping it in the set. Hence is a normal subgroup of .
Choose . The cosets are distinct and cover the twelve elements. With , defineThe coset decomposition makes this well-defined. Normality givesso preserves products. It is onto , andThis is the tetrahedral quotient onto the cyclic group of order three. In terms of (a), it sends to , to , and to . The normality check above also follows abstractly because a group homomorphism kernel is normal.
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