Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ib Paper 2 1G Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Fix . If , then normality of givesThus the transitive group action of permutes the orbits of a group action of , so all -orbits have the same cardinality . They partition the prime-sized set , hence divides . The only possibilities are and . The first would make every element of fix every point, contrary to the assumption that acts nontrivially. Therefore and
Now suppose . Define the orbit mapIt is surjective by transitivity of . If , then , so ; hence is bijective. For ,Thus is an equivariant map: conjugation by on corresponds exactly to the given action of on .