Let and let be the standard basis of its real regular representation, with modulo three. Set
Both are invariant, they are orthogonal, and
The line is the trivial representation. On the plane , the generator acts as a rotation through . Such a rotation has no real eigenline, so has no nonzero proper invariant real subspace and is irreducible.
Work with the selected transitive orbit . By Maschke's theorem, decompose its permutation character as
where the are distinct nontrivial irreducible characters. Character orthogonality gives
Consequently the augmentation summand is irreducible exactly when this inner product equals .
The double cosets are the -orbits on . Because acts transitively on , these in turn correspond to the -orbits on : move the first coordinate to the base point , after which its stabilizer is . One orbit is the diagonal. There are exactly two orbits precisely when is transitive on , equivalently when the action is two-transitive. Part (ii) therefore proves
This is the irreducible augmentation criterion for a transitive group action.
Finally, transitivity implies that the fixed-vector space consists only of constant vectors and has dimension one. If the nonzero representation were a trivial representation, it would contribute another fixed vector, a contradiction. Thus is not the trivial representation.
The vector
is fixed by every element of , so is a trivial representation. The coefficient-sum subspace
is also -invariant, and every vector has a unique decomposition into a constant vector and an element of . Hence
Here is the augmentation subrepresentation of a permutation representation.