Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / ii / Paper 2 / 19I / c / Solution

Let $K=\ker \chi$, which is nontrivial. Every tensor power affording ${\chi }^n$ is trivial on $K$, so each of its irreducible constituents has $K$ in its kernel. Some irreducible representation is nontrivial on $K$; otherwise the regular representation, which contains every irreducible, would also be trivial on $K$. Choose its character $\psi$. Then $\psi$ is a constituent of no ${\chi }^n$, and

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