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ID: past-exam-of-the-metric-spaces-and-complex-analysis-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/6/b/ii/solution
Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2014 6 b ii Solution by
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Let be the subgroup preserving the three-point set. Its action gives a group homomorphism . If is the identity permutation, then fixes all three points, so part (i) forces to be the identity Möbius map. Thus the kernel is trivial and is injective.
For any permutation , part (i) gives a normalization sending the ordered triple to . If normalizes the original triple, then sends to . Hence every permutation is attained, so is surjective.This is the setwise stabilizer; its six maps need not fix each point individually.
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