Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ia Paper 1 5B b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the same triangle and let consist of translations for . All its vertices have integer coordinates, and one vertex is the origin, soThe rotation through a quarter-turn preserves this integer lattice, and hence belongs to . It fixes the origin and is not the identity, whereas the only translation fixing the origin is the identity. It is therefore outside , proving . This is symmetry enlargement under group translates even though itself has trivial stabilizer subgroup.