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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2009 A A2 iv Solution by
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The multiplicative group has order , so Lagrange's theorem for finite groups gives for . Including zero, for every . Therefore is the identity. No positive smaller power is the identity by part (iii), soFor this says that Frobenius itself is the identity, as it should be.
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