Ivan Shishkin, Rye (1878)

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Simultaneous triangularization over GL⁡n(Fp)\operatorname{GL}_n\left(\mathbb{F}_p\right)

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Lightning solution via Sylow

Deduce from
∣GLn(Fp)∣=∏k=0n−1(pn−pk)=pn(n−1)/2∏k=1n(pk−1),\bigl|\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{F}_p)\bigr|=\prod_{k=0}^{n-1}\bigl(p^{n}-p^{k}\bigr)=p^{n(n-1)/2}\prod_{k=1}^{n}\bigl(p^{k}-1\bigr),the second factor being coprime to pp, that GG is a Sylow pp-subgroup. Since Un(Fp)U_n(\mathbb{F}_p) is another one, Sylow’s second theorem makes them conjugate, which settles the problem at once.

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