Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 74 4 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For the free monoid on , use the functionThe strict inequality is important. For any prefix , is equivalent to . Whenever it holds, is nonempty and prefixing does not change its final letter. When it fails, both values are zero. Thuswhich proves equivariance for the diagonal action on and the trivial action on . Hence is an element of the exponential described above. Let be the constant-zero equivariant function. They differ at .