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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2008 A A2 b ii Solution by
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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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