Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2018 1 b Solution 2026-10-25
The additive cyclic group is generated by , with . Every complex irreducible representation is one-dimensional by a. If , the defining relation requires . Conversely each such root of unity defines a group homomorphism. Hence the complete list isChanging the representative of changes the exponent by an integer multiple of , so the formula is well-defined. These representations are pairwise inequivalent because their values on the generator differ. The case is the trivial representation.