Paper 3, Section II, D
Part IA, 2016
Define the Möbius group and its action on the Riemann sphere . [You are not required to verify the group axioms.] Show that there is a surjective group homomorphism , and find the kernel of
Show that if a non-trivial element of has finite order, then it fixes precisely two points in . Hence show that any finite abelian subgroup of is either cyclic or isomorphic to .
[You may use standard properties of the Möbius group, provided that you state them clearly.]