Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2008-printed-variant/a/a2/b/ii/solution

Yes. Suppose maps the first flag to the second and has determinant . Relative to an adapted basis of the first flag, scaling its first basis vector by and fixing all others defines a transformation preserving that flag, with determinant . Then still maps the first flag to the second and has determinant one. Thus the special linear subgroup acts transitively too.

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