Practice Midterm 1

Question 0

0.1

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  1. Langrange's theorem states that for any group G and subgroup H, the left cosets of H create an equivalence class partitioning G. As a byproduct the order of H divides G exactly with the number of cosets known as the index, [G:H]. As a formulation: $$[G:H] = \frac{\mid G\mid}{\mid H \mid}$$

0.2

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  1. A well defined function F would be one where F(a)=b, for aA,bB and each a would only map to one b. This relation can be defined as a subset of AxB, where F(a)=b can be shown as (a,b).

0.3

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  1. S4 has order 4!=24 and group Z24 has order 24. However, S4 is not abelian and Z24 is, thus they are not isomorphic.

Problem 1

1.1

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  1. Such a function would be f(x)=roof(x/2).
    1. This would clearly get all N in the codomain, but both 1,2 would map to 1

1.2

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  1. lets first check if it is an equivalence relation:
    1. Reflexive:
      1. (x,y)~(x,y):
        1. xy=yx thus this holds
    2. Symmetric:
      1. Assume: (x,y)~(a,b), ie:
        1. xb=ya
        2. then, we can see (a,b)~(x,y) as
        3. ay=bx
    3. Transitive:
      1. Assume (x,y)~(a,b), and (a,b)~(z,d)
      2. Then we know $$xb=ya \quad and \quad ad = bz$$
      3. From here we want to show (x,y)~(z,d) or $$xd=yz$$
      4. Multiplying the left equation by d and right equation by y we get $$xb d=yad \quad and \quad ady = bzy$$
      5. meaning xbd=bzy
      6. or xd=zy which needed to be shown

Problem 2

2.1

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  1. The order is easily calculated as LCM(3,5)=15. Thus τ15=id. Then τ13=τ2 or:
  2. (251)(46783)(251)(46783) = (152)(47368)

2.2

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The group Z60X is the multiplicative group containing call elements relatively prime to 60. This would be {1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,49,53,59} which has 16 elements. This is a group under multiplication as:

  1. Associativity met through definition of binary multiplication in modulo
  2. Inverses are met as all elements m s.t. GCD(m,n)=1 have inverses in Zn.
  3. 1 is the multiplicative identity which is in the group.

2.3

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S3 is in S4 and is not abelian.

Problem 3

3.1

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#review

3.2

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G is a group with 19 (prime) elements, thus it is cyclic. This means it can be generated by some element a s.t. G=a. If a is e, then we have it so H is also e and both are trivial (ψ(g)=ehgG). Suppose a is not 0, then it must be the case that a maps to the generator in h, let ψ(a)=m and for any g=akG,ψ(ak)=ψ(a1a2...ak)=ψ(a)1ψ(a)2...ψ(a)k=mk and clearly this is injective as if any two elements map to the same element in H they must be the same power of a in G

Because G is a group with prime number of elements, due to langranges theorem its only subgroups are trivial, ie {e} or 1. This means we have only two possible kernels. If the kernel is {e} then the homomorphism is injective, if the kernel is the entire ring then the homomorphism is trivial.

#review redo, look at possible kernels.

3.3

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83={n83nZ}

Clearly, 73 is not in this set.