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The key observation is therefore that the <strong>cyclic</strong> C <strong>of</strong> order k<br />

has an orbit <strong>of</strong> length k = |C| if and only if the module for a<br />

primitive k th root <strong>of</strong> unity appears in F Ω. Our version <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Burnside-Brauer Lemma is

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