Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 139 2 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
After replacing by a maximal -linearly independent subset with the same span, write . The standard independence lemma, proved by induction using Schur's lemma, saysOtherwise would depend only on , defining an -map whose coordinate maps lie in and forcing . Applying the same argument with shows that implies , proving the requested claim.
The Jacobson density theorem states that if are -independent and , there is with for every . Induct on . First match the first values. The independence lemma makes , for , a nonzero submodule and hence all of ; an element of supplies the final correction.
If is primitive, choose a faithful simple module . When , density makes surjective and faithfulness makes it injective. If is infinite, choose an -dimensional -subspace and let . Density makes restriction surjective.