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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2009 A A2 ii Solution by
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Define on all of . The binomial coefficients between the endpoints are divisible by , so ; also and . Thus this is a field homomorphism. Its kernel is zero, and an injective self-map of the finite set is surjective. Hence , the Frobenius automorphism, with the required image of . It fixes by the preceding prime-subfield argument.
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