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ID: past-exam-of-the-representation-theory-of-symmetric-groups-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/2/c/solution
Past exam of the representation Theory of Symmetric Groups course of the University of Oxford 2011 2 c Solution by
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Identify with , whose basis vectors record the singleton row. PutIf the characteristic does not divide , then , and is simple. If it divides , then is the submodule chain, with and trivial and simple of dimension . In both cases there are no additional submodules: any vector with unequal coordinates yields a nonzero multiple of by subtracting its image under , and the orbit of such a difference spans . A submodule containing no nonconstant vector is contained in .
Now suppose . When , part (b)'s valid vanishing implies : extend a putative map using the projection .
When , the assumption makes odd. The corrected calculation in part (b) says every map sends its singleton-row basis vectors to the same multiple of the globally invariant vector . Hence it kills the augmentation submodule . Extending a map along the direct-sum projection again makes it zero. Thus, despite the characteristic-two error in the earlier claim, the requested conclusion remains valid:
The structural input is the submodule lattice of the standard symmetric-group permutation module.
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