Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2012/b/b2/d/solution

An element is central exactly when for every . By part (b), this is exactly the assertion that every stabilizes . That means every conjugate of is ; conversely, a singleton conjugacy class has this property for every .
In particular, the singleton classes are in one-to-one correspondence with the elements of the centre.

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