Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ia Paper 3 7D b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
False. Realize the symmetries of a square as a dihedral group of order eight, generated by and , with and . Take . Its double cosets are preciselyThese are disjoint and exhaust the eight symmetries. There are three double cosets, and . This proves that double-coset counts need not divide group order. Specifying the order-eight realization avoids competing conventions for the notation of a dihedral group.