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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 151 2 a ii Solution by
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Apply part i toThe element generates the additive cyclic group exactly when it is coprime to , which is equivalent to its reduction modulo being nonzero. Hence is a topological generating set of the additive group if and only if .
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A subset topologically generates exactly whenfor every . In the usual presentation by surjective finite quotients this reads . Indeed, a subgroup is dense exactly when its image in every finite discrete quotient is the whole quotient. This is the finite-quotient criterion for topological generation.
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Suppose first that is conjugacy separable. If is not conjugate to in , some homomorphism to a finite group sends them to nonconjugate elements. This homomorphism factors through a finite quotient of , so cannot be conjugate to in . Thus
Conversely, suppose this equality holds and is not conjugate to in . Then they are not conjugate in . By the finite-quotient criterion for conjugacy in a profinite group, their images fail to be conjugate in some finite quotient. This is precisely conjugacy separability.
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The canonical image of is dense in its profinite completion . Therefore every is a limit of a net in . Continuity of conjugation givesso every element of lies in the closure of . The reverse inclusion follows because the larger conjugacy class contains the smaller one and is closed by part b(iii). Hence
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Conversely, suppose and are conjugate for every . Define the nonempty finite setEvery transition map carries into , so the form an inverse system. By the nonemptiness theorem for inverse limits of finite sets, there is a compatible tuple . Coordinatewise equality then gives . This proves the finite-quotient criterion for conjugacy in a profinite group.
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The profinite group is compact, and the preceding part shows thatis its image. By the continuous image of a compact space theorem, the conjugacy class is compact. Since a profinite group is Hausdorff, every compact subset is closed, so is closed.
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For fixed , the conjugation map is the compositefollowed by multiplication. Inversion, constant maps, diagonal maps, and multiplication are continuous in a topological group, so is continuous.
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The product of the finite groups with their discrete topology is a topological group under coordinatewise multiplication and inversion. The compatibility equations defining are preserved by both operations, so is a subgroup. Their restrictions to the subspace topology on are continuous. Hence with its standard inverse-limit topology is a topological group.
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Give each nonempty finite set the discrete topology. The product space is compact by the Tychonoff theorem. For each , the compatibility condition defines a closed subset .
These sets have the finite intersection property. Indeed, for finitely many conditions choose an index above every index occurring in them, choose any , and use the transition maps from to define all required coordinates; choose the remaining coordinates arbitrarily. Compactness therefore givesThis is the nonemptiness theorem for inverse limits of finite sets.
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For an inverse system of sets indexed by a directed set , the inverse limit is the set of compatible tuplesIts projection to sends to .
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LetThe extension is the unramified quadratic extension. Since contains all st roots of unity, is a cyclic, tamely and totally ramified extension of degree , with automorphisms .
The Frobenius automorphism of extends by fixing and conjugates to . Hence is Galois, its inertia group isand its residue-field Galois group isThe tame ramification also gives .
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Let and normalize . The lower ramification groups arewith . In particular is the inertia group, and is the wild inertia group. When the extension is totally ramified, the uniformizer criterion for lower ramification groups permits the equivalent test on one uniformizer.
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The reduction of is a nonidentity point of the group of prime order seven. Hence reduces to the identity and lies in . Part i shows that has infinite order, so . Every nonidentity point in has formal parameter of positive valuation and thereforehas negative valuation. Thus does not have integral coordinates.
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Let be the th term in the filtration of elliptic-curve points over a local field. Reduction givesof order four, whilehas order two. The formal logarithm is injective on and identifies it with an additive subgroup of , so is torsion-free. A finite subgroup of therefore injects into , whose order is . Thus divides .
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For good reduction at , the reduction of an elliptic curve gives a mapwhose kernel is its formal group of an elliptic curve, and the torsion in that kernel is -primary. Hence the prime-to- part of any torsion subgroup injects into .
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After passing to a subsequence, weak compactness and the Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem giveFor fixed , the Sobolev inequality gives , soMeanwhile in . Pairing this weak convergence with the strong convergence of the products, or equivalently using the weak-strong product convergence lemma, yields
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Linearity in follows from linearity of the weak derivative and Lebesgue integration. By the Holder inequality, the three-dimensional Sobolev inequality, and the preceding interpolation estimate,Thus is a linear functional and a continuous linear map on .
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The Holder inequality interpolates between and :Taking cube roots and applying the three-dimensional Sobolev inequality givesThis is the H1 L3 interpolation inequality in three dimensions.
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The boundedness in the Sobolev space and the weak sequential compactness of bounded sequences in a reflexive Banach space give a subsequence converging weakly to some . For each integer , the Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem makes compact because the dimension is two. Repeated extraction followed by the diagonal argument gives one subsequence converging strongly to in every with integral .
For any finite real , choose an integer . Since has finite measure, the Lp inclusion on a finite measure space givesThe same subsequence therefore works for every finite .
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In polar coordinates, setaway from the origin, assigning any value at the origin. This is unbounded as . It belongs to becauseMoreoverand henceThus but , exhibiting the failure of first-order Sobolev embedding into Linfinity in two dimensions.
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