A triangular prism has exactly the required nine metal–metal edges: six edges around two triangular faces and three edges joining corresponding vertices of those faces. It naturally offers two symmetry-distinct edge families, of sizes six and three.
With twelve ligands, neutral has total rhenium oxidation number , hence six formally Re(II), centres. After treating the Re–Cl interactions as ligand bonds, the available metal electrons areTwo localized bond order assignments use those fifteen pairs:In scheme I the three inter-triangle edges should be shorter; in scheme II the six triangle edges should be shorter. Both give each Re five electrons' worth of metal–metal bond-order contributions: two singles plus a triple, or two doubles plus a single. The electron count permits both schemes; identifying which family is shorter distinguishes them at this level. Actual cluster molecular orbitals are delocalized, so these integer bond orders summarize bonding rather than asserting isolated textbook multiple bonds on every edge.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 130 4 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let be a finite Ramsey witness for under colors. Choose a finite witness for under colors. Given a coloring of , color each by the complete vectorThere is a copy on which this vector is constant. Thus, for each , the color is independent of . These values define a -coloring of , which has a monochromatic copy . Then is a monochromatic isometric copy of . This proves the product theorem for Euclidean Ramsey sets.
Every nondegenerate triangle and every line segment is a Euclidean Ramsey set. If is the given acute triangle and is a segment of length in a new orthogonal coordinate, then is exactly the vertex set of the triangular prism with base and height . The product theorem therefore makes it Euclidean Ramsey.
The normal closure is the smallest normal subgroup of containing , equivalently the intersection of all normal subgroups containing . Any such normal subgroup contains every and hence every finite product of these elements. Thus .
Include the empty product so that , in particular when . Products of elements of are obtained by concatenating their factor lists. Inversion reverses the list and replaces by , so is closed under inverses. For any ,Therefore is a normal subgroup and it contains . Minimality of the normal closure gives the reverse inclusion, provingThe notation in a finite-product description is understood to allow the empty product; otherwise the empty generating subset would require a separate identity convention.
In a group presentation, is a set of formal generators and is a subset of the free group , consisting of relators which are required to become the identity. The presented group isThe universal property of a group presentation says that a function extends to a group homomorphism from the presented group precisely when every relator evaluates to in : first extend freely to , then factor through the quotient because its kernel contains the normal closure of .
A rotation by and a reflection of a regular -gon satisfyThe last identity holds because reflection reverses the sense of rotation, and it implies . Hence all defining relators vanish, giving a homomorphism with and .
To prove it is an isomorphism without presupposing the order of the presented group, use . Move every occurrence of to the left, cancel pairs by , and reduce exponents modulo . Every element has one of the formsThus . For the usual regular polygon with , the rotations are distinct and the reflections are distinct; no rotation is a reflection, since their planar orientation behavior differs. The supplied description says these exhaust , so , and every one lies in the image of . Surjectivity and the order bound force and trivial kernel. Thus is an isomorphism.
For the requested Cayley graph, use right multiplication by the generators. The edges are the two directed 3-cyclesThe edges are the undirected pairsThese pairs use . Thus the underlying graph is a triangular prism, with the two rotation cycles oriented oppositely when reflection pairs are drawn as radial edges.
The Cayley graph of the dihedral group of order six
. Blue arrows are right multiplication by sigma. Orange undirected edges are right multiplication by the involution tau. Details.