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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2024 Paper 2 10 b Solution by
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Here , and , so is a cyclic group of order four. Its multiplication table isWrite the specified image of as . Direct matrix multiplication givesA group representation is a group homomorphism to a general linear group, so the images of all powers of are forced:All four images are invertible. Defining is well-defined modulo four because , and verifies every product in the table. These observations prove both existence and uniqueness of this representation with the prescribed image.
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