Paper 4, Section II, F
Part II, 2020
(a) State and prove Burnside's lemma. Deduce that if a finite group acts 2transitively on a set then the corresponding permutation character has precisely two (distinct) irreducible summands.
(b) Suppose that is a field with elements. Write down a list of conjugacy class representatives for . Consider the natural action of on the set of lines through the origin in . What values does the corresponding permutation character take on each conjugacy class representative in your list? Decompose this permutation character into irreducible characters.