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Theorem 11. \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathfrak{A}\right) \) is a ring of characteristic \( {p}^{m} \) .
Proof. It suffices to show that the order of 1 in the additive group of \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathfrak{A}\right) \) is \( {p}^{m} \) . We have seen that \( {p1} = {1}^{VR} = (0,1,0 , \cdots ,0) \) and by iterating (27) we obtain \( {p}^{2}1 = \left( {0,0,1,0,\cdots }\right) \) etc. This shows that \( {p}^{m - 1}...
Yes
Theorem 13. Let \( s \rightarrow {\mu }_{s} \) be a mapping of \( G \) into \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathrm{P}\right) \) such that \( {\mu }_{st} = {\mu }_{s}{}^{t} + {\mu }_{t}, s,{t\varepsilon G} \) . Then there exists an element \( {\sigma \varepsilon }{\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathrm{P}\right) \) such that \( {...
Proof. The proof is identical with that of the special case of Galois extension fields treated in Theorem 1.20. We choose \( \rho \) in \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathrm{P}\right) \) so that \( T{\left( \rho \right) }^{-1} \) exists in \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \Phi \right) \) and we let \( \tau = \) \( T{\left( \r...
Yes
Theorem 14. Let \( \Phi \) be a field of characteristic \( p \neq 0,\mathrm{P}/\Phi \) an abelian p-extension whose Galois group \( G \) is of exponent \( {p}^{e} \) and let \( {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \mathrm{P}\right) \) be the ring of Witt vectors of length \( m \) over \( \mathrm{P} \) where \( m \geq e \) . Let \(...
The proof of the last statement is exactly like that of the corresponding statement of Theorem 7. We leave it to the reader to check the details.
No
Lemma 2. Let \( \beta = \left( {{\beta }_{0},{\beta }_{1},\cdots ,{\beta }_{m - 1}}\right) \varepsilon {\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \Phi \right) \). Then there exists a finite dimensional separable extension field \( \mathrm{P} \) of \( \Phi \) such that \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left( \rho \right) \equiv \Phi \left( {{\rho }_...
Proof. If \( m = 1 \) we just have to construct a separable extension \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left( \rho \right) \) generated by a root \( \rho \) of an equation \( {x}^{p} - x = \beta ,\beta \) a given element in \( \Phi \). Since the derivative \( {\left( {x}^{p} - x - \beta \right) }^{\prime } = - 1 \) the given equat...
Yes
Lemma 3. If \( {\beta }_{0},\cdots ,{\beta }_{m - 1}\mathrm{e}\Phi \), then \( {\beta }_{0}\mathrm{e}\mathfrak{P}\left( \Phi \right) \) if and only if \( \beta = \left( {{\beta }_{0},{\beta }_{1},\cdots ,{\beta }_{m - 1}}\right) \) satisfies \( {p}^{m - 1}{\beta \varepsilon }\Re \left( {{\mathfrak{W}}_{m}\left( \Phi \r...
Proof. By (27), \( {p}^{m - 1}\beta = \left( {0,\cdots ,0,{\beta }_{0}{}^{{p}^{m - 1}}}\right) \) . We have \( (0,\cdots \) , \( \left. {0,{\beta }_{0}}\right) - \left( {0,\cdots ,0,{\beta }_{0}{p}^{m - 1}}\right) = \left( {0,\cdots ,0,{\beta }_{0}}\right) - \left( {0,\cdots ,0,{\beta }_{0}{}^{p}}\right) + \) \( \left(...
Yes
Theorem 16. Let \( \Phi \) be a field of characteristic \( p \neq 0 \) . Then there exist cyclic extensions of \( {p}^{m} \) dimensions, \( m = 1,2,3,\cdots \) over \( \Phi \) if and only if there exist such extensions of \( p \) dimensions. The condition for this is \( \Phi \neq \mathfrak{P}\left( \Phi \right) \) .
Proof. We have seen that there exists a cyclic extension of \( p \) dimensions over \( \Phi \) if and only if \( \Phi \neq \mathfrak{P}\left( \Phi \right) \) . Suppose this condition holds and choose \( {\beta }_{0}{\varepsilon \Phi },\varepsilon \mathfrak{P}\left( \Phi \right) \) . Let \( \beta = \left( {{\beta }_{0},...
Yes
Theorem 1. Any field has an algebraic closure.
Proof. If \( \Phi \) is a given field, then we can imbed \( \Phi \) in a set \( \Omega \) which is very large compared to \( \Phi \) in the following sense: if \( \Phi \) is finite, then \( \Omega \) is not countable and, if \( \Phi \) is infinite, then \( \left| \Omega \right| > \left| \Phi \right| \) . We now make ex...
Yes
Theorem 2. Let \( \alpha \rightarrow \bar{\alpha } \) be an isomorphism of a field \( \Phi \) onto a field \( \Phi \) and let \( \Omega \) be a set of polynomials of positive degree contained in \( \Phi \left\lbrack x\right\rbrack ,\bar{\Omega } \) the set of images of the \( {f\varepsilon \Omega } \) under the isomorp...
Proof. We consider the collection \( \Delta \) of isomorphisms \( s \) of subfields of \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) onto subfields of \( \overline{\mathrm{P}}/\Phi \) which coincide with the given isomorphism \( \alpha \rightarrow \bar{\alpha } \) of \( \Phi \) onto \( \Phi \) . We can partially order \( \Delta = \{ s\} \) by...
Yes
Theorem 3. Any field of characteristic 0 is perfect and a field \( \Phi \) of characteristic \( p \neq 0 \) is perfect if and only if \( \Phi = {\Phi }^{p} \), that is, every element of \( \Phi \) is a p-th power in \( \Phi \) .
Proof. The first statement is clear since inseparable polynomials exist only for characteristic \( p \neq 0 \) . Now let \( \Phi \) be of characteristic \( p \neq 0 \) and suppose \( {\Phi }^{p} \subset \Phi \) . Let \( \alpha \) be an element of \( \Phi \) which is not a \( p \) -th power in \( \Phi \) . Then we know ...
Yes
Lemma 1. Any finite subset of \( \mathrm{P} \) is contained in a subfield \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) which is finite dimensional Galois.
Proof. Let \( f \) be a polynomial which is a product of a finite number of polynomials contained in the set \( \dot{\Omega } \) . Then it is clear that \( \mathrm{P} \) contains a splitting field \( {\mathrm{P}}_{f}/\Phi \) of \( f \) . Moreover, we know that \( {\mathrm{P}}_{f} \) is finite dimensional Galois over \(...
Yes
Lemma 2. \( \Phi = I\left( G\right) \), that is, the only elements of \( \mathrm{P} \) which are \( G \) -invariant are the elements of \( \Phi \) .
Proof. We have to show that, if \( {\rho \varepsilon }\mathrm{P},\sharp \Phi \), then there exists an automorphism \( s \) of \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \Phi \) such that \( {\rho }^{s} \neq \rho \) . By Lemma 1, \( \rho \) is contained in a subfield \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) which is finite dimensional Galois over \( \Phi \...
Yes
Theorem 6. Algebraic dependence in \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) is a dependence relation in the sense of \( I - {IV} \) .
Proof. I. This is evident. II. This was proved before. III. Let \( \xi \) be algebraic over \( \Phi \left( S\right) \) and suppose every \( {\eta \varepsilon S} \) is algebraic over \( \Phi \left( T\right) \) . Consider the subset \( \mathrm{A} \) of \( \mathrm{P} \) of elements which are algebraic over \( \Phi \left( ...
Yes
Theorem 9. If \( \mathrm{P} \) is an algebraic extension of \( \Phi \) (possibly infinite dimensional), then \( \mathrm{P} \) is separable over \( \Phi \) if and only if \( \mathrm{P} \) is linearly disjoint to \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) over \( \Phi \) .
Proof. We recall that an algebraic element \( \rho \) of \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \Phi \) is separable if and only if \( {\rho \varepsilon \Phi }\left( {\rho }^{p}\right) \) (Lemma 2 of \( §{1.9} \) ). Suppose first that \( \mathrm{P} \) and \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) are linearly disjoint over \( \Phi \) and let \( {\rh...
Yes
Theorem 10. If \( \mathrm{P} \) is purely transcendental over \( \Phi \), then \( \mathrm{P} \) is linearly disjoint to \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) over \( \Phi \) .
Proof. Our assumption is that \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left( B\right) \) where \( B \) is an algebraically independent set. We have seen also that \( \mathrm{P} \) is linearly disjoint to \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) over \( \Phi \) if and only if the subalgebra \( \Phi \left\lbrack B\right\rbrack \) of polynomials in the ele...
Yes
Theorem 11. (1) If \( \mathrm{P} \) is separable over \( \Phi \) and \( \mathrm{E} \) is a subfield of \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \Phi \), then \( \mathrm{E} \) is separable over \( \Phi \) . (2) If \( \mathrm{P} \) is separable over \( \mathrm{E} \) and \( \mathrm{E} \) is separable over \( \Phi \), then \( \mathrm{P} \...
Proof. We may assume the characteristic is \( p \neq 0 \) . (1) This is clear since the linear disjointness of \( \mathrm{P} \) and \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) implies the linear disjointness of \( \mathrm{E} \) and \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) . (2) We are assuming that \( {\Phi }^{{p}^{-1}} \) is linearly disjoint to \( \ma...
Yes
Theorem 12. If \( \mathfrak{A} \) is a subalgebra of \( \mathfrak{B} \) and \( D \) is a derivation of \( \mathfrak{A} \) into \( \mathfrak{B} \), then \( s : a \rightarrow a + \left( {aD}\right) t \) is an isomorphism of \( \mathfrak{A} \) into the algebra of dual numbers \( \mathfrak{B} \otimes \mathfrak{T} \) over \...
We shall now obtain some simple consequences of this connection between derivations and isomorphisms. First, let \( \mathfrak{X} \) be a set of generators of the subalgebra \( \mathfrak{A} \) of the algebra \( \mathfrak{B} \) and let \( {D}_{1} \) and \( {D}_{2} \) be derivations of \( \mathfrak{A} \) into \( \mathfrak...
Yes
Theorem 13. Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be a field over \( \Phi \) , \( \mathfrak{A} \) a subalgebra of \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) (containing 1), M a multiplicatively closed subset of non-zero elements of \( \mathfrak{A} \) containing 1, and let \( {\mathfrak{A}}_{M} \) be the subalgebra of \( \mathrm{P} \) of elements of the for...
Proof. Let \( s \) be the isomorphism \( a \rightarrow a + \left( {aD}\right) t \) of \( \mathfrak{A} \) into \( \mathrm{P} \otimes \mathfrak{T} \) . If \( a \neq 0 \), then \( {a}^{s} = a + \left( {aD}\right) t \) has the inverse \( {a}^{-1} - \) \( {a}^{-2}\left( {aD}\right) t \) since\n\n\[ \left( {a + \left( {aD}\r...
Yes
Theorem 14. Let \( \mathfrak{A} \) be a subalgebra over \( \Phi \) of the field \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) and let \( {\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2},\cdots ,{\xi }_{m},{\eta }_{1},{\eta }_{2},\cdots ,{\xi }_{m} \) be elements of \( \mathrm{P}, D \) a derivation of \( \mathfrak{A} \) into \( \mathrm{P} \) . Let \( \mathfrak{K} \) be ...
(14)\n\n\[ {g}^{D}\left( {{\xi }_{1},\cdots ,{\xi }_{m}}\right) + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{m}{\left( \frac{\partial g}{\partial {x}_{i}}\right) }_{{x}_{j} = {\xi }_{j}}{\eta }_{i} = 0 \] for every \( {g\varepsilon }\mathfrak{X} \) . If the extension exists, then it is unique.
Yes
Theorem 15. Let \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left( {{\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2},\cdots ,{\xi }_{m}}\right) \) a field of algebraic functions over \( \Phi \) . Let \( \mathfrak{X} \) be a set of generators for the ideal \( \mathfrak{K} \) of polynomials \( f\left( {{x}_{1},{x}_{2},\cdots ,{x}_{m}}\right) \) such that \( f\left( {{\x...
If \( \mathfrak{X} = \left\{ {{g}_{1},{g}_{2},\cdots ,{g}_{r}}\right\} \), then it is clear from the definition of \( {d}_{f} \) and from the relation between dimensionality and determinantal rank (Vol. II, p. 22) that \( {\left\lbrack d\mathfrak{X} : \mathrm{P}\right\rbrack }_{R} \) is the rank of the matrix\n\n(22)\n...
Yes
Theorem 16. If \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left( {{\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2},\cdots ,{\xi }_{m}}\right) \), then \( {\left\lbrack {\mathfrak{D}}_{\Phi }\left( \mathrm{P}\right) : \mathrm{P}\right\rbrack }_{R} \) is the smallest integer \( s \) such that there exists a subset \( \left\{ {{\xi }_{{i}_{1}},{\xi }_{{i}_{2}},\cdots ,{...
Proof. As before, we consider the mapping \( D \rightarrow \left( {{\xi }_{1}D,{\xi }_{2}D}\right. \) , \( \left. {\cdots ,{\xi }_{m}D}\right) \) of \( \mathfrak{D} = {\mathfrak{D}}_{\Phi }\left( \mathrm{P}\right) \) into \( {\mathrm{P}}^{\left( m\right) } \) . We know that this is a \( \mathrm{P} \) isomorphism into \...
Yes
Theorem 17. Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be an arbitrary field of characteristic \( \neq 0 \) , \( \Phi \) a subfield and \( \mathrm{E} \) an intermediate field. Let \( B \) be a p-basis of \( \mathrm{E} \) over \( \Phi \) . Let \( \delta \) be an arbitrary mapping of \( B \) into \( \mathrm{P} \) . Then there exists one and o...
Proof. As we indicated, there is no loss in generality in assuming \( \mathbf{E} \) is purely inseparable of exponent \( \leq 1 \) over \( \Phi \) . Also, we may suppose \( \mathrm{E} \supset \Phi \) which means that \( B \) is non-vacuous and the exponent of \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) is exactly one. Let \( \epsilon \) e \...
Yes
Corollary 1. \( {\left\lbrack {\mathfrak{D}}_{\Phi }\left( \mathrm{E},\mathrm{P}\right) : \mathrm{P}\right\rbrack }_{R} < \infty \) if and only if \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) has a finite p-basis. Then \( {\left\lbrack {\mathfrak{D}}_{\Phi }\left( \mathrm{E},\mathrm{P}\right) : \mathrm{P}\right\rbrack }_{R} = \left| B\right|...
Proof. Let \( B \) be a \( p \) -basis for \( \mathrm{E} \) over \( \Phi \) . Let \( \Delta \left( {B,\mathrm{P}}\right) \) be the set of mappings of \( B \) into \( \mathrm{P} \) which we consider as a right vector space over \( \mathrm{P} \) in the obvious way: \( \left( {{\delta }_{1} + {\delta }_{2}}\right) \left( ...
Yes
Corollary 2. Every derivation of \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) into \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) can be extended to a derivation of \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) if and only if the elements of any p-basis \( B \) of \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) are p-independent in \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) .
Proof. If the condition holds, then \( B \) can be imbedded in a \( p \) - basis \( C \) of \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \Phi \) . If \( D \) is a derivation of \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) into \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \), then the restriction \( {\delta }_{B} \) of \( D \) to \( B \) can be extended to a mapping \( {\delta }_{C} \) o...
Yes
Theorem 19 (Jacobson). Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be a field of characteristic \( p \neq 0 \) and let \( \mathfrak{D} \) be a restricted \( \mathrm{P} \) -Lie algebra of derivations in \( \mathrm{P} \) such that \( {\left\lbrack \mathfrak{D} : \mathrm{P}\right\rbrack }_{R} = m < \infty \) . Then: (1) if \( \Phi \) is the sub...
Proof. The idea of the proof we shall give is basically the same as that we used for the Galois theory of automorphisms: we shall use the given set \( \mathfrak{D} \) to define a set of endomorphisms \( \mathfrak{A} \) satisfying the hypotheses of the Jacobson-Bourbaki theorem (Th. 1.2). In the present case we let \( \...
Yes
Theorem 20. Let \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) be a field of characteristic \( p \neq 0 \), E a subfield of \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi ,{D}^{\left( m\right) } \) a higher derivation of rank \( m \) and order \( q \) of \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) into \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) . Let \( \Gamma \) be the subfield of \( {D}^{\left( m\right) } \) -c...
Proof. We have to show that \( {\epsilon }^{{p}^{e}}{\varepsilon \Gamma } \) for every \( {\epsilon \varepsilon }\mathrm{E} \) and that there exists an \( \epsilon \mathrm{e}\mathrm{E} \) such that \( {\epsilon }^{{p}^{e - 1}} \notin \Gamma \) . The first is clear from (46) since\n\n\[ \n{\left( {\epsilon }^{{p}^{e}}\r...
Yes
Theorem 21. Let \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) and \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) be extension fields of \( \Phi \). (1) If \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) is separable and \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) is purely inseparable, then \( \mathrm{P} \) \( \otimes \Phi \mathbf{E} \) is a field. On the other hand, if \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) is not separable, then...
Proof. In (1) and the first part of (3) we may assume the characteristic is \( p \neq 0 \) . In all cases we write \( \mathrm{P} \otimes \mathrm{E} \) for \( \mathrm{P} \otimes * \mathrm{E} \) and we identify \( \mathrm{P} \) and \( \mathrm{E} \) with subalgebras of \( \mathrm{P} \otimes \mathrm{E} = \mathrm{{PE}} \) ....
Yes
Theorem 22. Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be purely transcendental over \( \Phi \), say, \( \mathrm{P} = \) \( \Phi \left( B\right) \) where \( B \) is a transcendency basis and let \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) be arbitrary. Then \( \mathrm{P} \otimes * \mathrm{E} \) has no zero-divisors, and if \( \Omega \) is its field of fractions,...
Proof. As usual, we consider \( \mathrm{P} \) and \( \mathrm{E} \) as subalgebras of \( \mathrm{P} \otimes \Phi \mathrm{E} \) . Since \( B \) is an algebraically independent set, the set \( M \) of distinct monomials \( {\beta }_{1}{}^{{k}_{1}}{\beta }_{2}{}^{{k}_{2}}\cdots {\beta }_{r}{}^{{k}_{r}},{k}_{i} \geq 0 \) in...
Yes
Theorem 23. If \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) is separable and \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) is arbitrary, then \( \mathrm{P}{ \otimes }_{\Phi }\mathrm{E} \) has no non-zero nilpotent elements.
Proof. It is clear that it suffices to prove this result under the additional assumption that \( \mathrm{P} \) is finitely generated. Then \( \mathrm{P} \) is separably generated, so that \( \mathrm{P} \) has a transcendency basis \( B \) such that \( \mathrm{P} \) is separable algebraic over \( \Phi \left( B\right) \)...
Yes
Lemma 1. Let \( \left( {\Gamma, s, t}\right) \) be a field composite of the fields \( \mathbf{E} \) over \( \Phi \) and \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \Phi \) . Suppose there exists a transcendency basis \( B \) for \( \mathrm{E} \) over \( \Phi \) and a transcendency basis \( {B}^{\prime } \) for \( \mathrm{P} \) over \( \P...
We remark also that if the condition of the lemma holds for \( B \) and \( {B}^{\prime } \), then \( {B}^{s} \cup {B}^{\prime t} \) is a transcendency basis for \( \Gamma \) . For, it is clear that the elements of \( {\mathbf{E}}^{s} \) and of \( {\mathbf{P}}^{t} \) are algebraic over \( \Phi \left( {B}^{s}\right. \cup...
Yes
Lemma 3. Let \( B \) and \( {B}^{\prime } \) be transcendency bases for \( \mathrm{E}/\Phi \) and \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) respectively. Then every element of \( \mathrm{E} \otimes \Phi \mathrm{P} \) is integral over \( \Phi \left( B\right) \Phi \left( {B}^{\prime }\right) \) .
Proof. Since \( \mathrm{E} \) and \( \mathrm{P} \) are algebraic over \( \Phi \left( B\right) \) and \( \Phi \left( {B}^{\prime }\right) \) respectively, it is clear that the elements of \( \mathbf{E} \) and of \( \mathbf{P} \) are integral over \( \Phi \left( B\right) \Phi \left( {B}^{\prime }\right) \) . Since \( \ma...
Yes
Theorem 2. If \( \varphi \) is a non-archimedean real valuation, then \( \varphi \left( {\alpha + \beta }\right) \leq \max \left( {\varphi \left( \alpha \right) ,\varphi \left( \beta \right) }\right) \) for every \( \alpha ,\beta \) in \( \Phi \) .
Proof. We have\n\n\[ \varphi {\left( \alpha + \beta \right) }^{n} = \varphi \left( {{\alpha }^{n} + \left( \begin{array}{l} n \\ 1 \end{array}\right) {\alpha }^{n - 1}\beta + \cdots + {\beta }^{n}}\right) \]\n\n\[ \leq \varphi {\left( \alpha \right) }^{n} + \varphi {\left( \alpha \right) }^{n - 1}\varphi \left( \beta \...
Yes
Theorem 3. Any archimedean real valuation of the rationals is equivalent to the absolute value valuation.
Proof (Artin). Let \( n \) and \( {n}^{\prime } \) be integers \( > 1 \) and write \( {n}^{\prime } = {a}_{0} \) \( + {a}_{1}n + \cdots + {a}_{k}{n}^{k},0 \leq {a}_{i} < n,{a}_{k} \neq 0 \) . Then,\n\n\[ \varphi \left( {n}^{\prime }\right) \leq \varphi \left( {a}_{0}\right) + \varphi \left( {a}_{1}\right) \varphi \left...
Yes
Theorem 4. Any non-trivial non-archimedean real valuation of the rationals is equivalent to a p-adic valuation for some prime p.
Proof. We have \( \varphi \left( n\right) \leq 1 \) for every integer \( n \) . If \( \varphi \left( n\right) = 1 \) for every integer, then \( \varphi \) is trivial. Hence there exist non-zero integers \( b \) such that \( \varphi \left( b\right) < 1 \) . Let \( \mathfrak{P} \) be the collection of integers \( b \) sa...
Yes
Theorem 6. Let \( {\Phi }_{i}, i = 1,2 \), be a complete field with a valuation \( {\varphi }_{i} \) and \( {\Phi }_{i} \) a dense subfeld of \( {\bar{\Phi }}_{i} \) . Let \( s \) be an isometric isomorphism of \( {\Phi }_{1} \) onto \( {\Phi }_{2} \) . Then \( s \) has a unique extension to an isometric isomorphism of...
This result implies, in particular, that, if \( {\Phi }_{1} \) and \( {\Phi }_{2} \) are completions of the same field \( \Phi \), then there exists an isometric isomorphism of \( {\Phi }_{1}/\Phi \) onto \( {\Phi }_{2}/\Phi \) . We just have to apply the theorem to the identity mapping in \( \Phi \) . In this sense th...
No
Lemma 1. Let \( \mathfrak{o} \) be a subring of a field \( \Phi \) and let \( \mathfrak{m} \) be a proper ideal in \( \mathfrak{o} \) . If \( \alpha \) is a non-zero element of \( \Phi \) and \( \mathfrak{o}\left\lbrack \alpha \right\rbrack \) is the subring of \( \Phi \) generated by \( \mathfrak{o} \) and \( \alpha \...
Proof. Suppose the contrary: \( \mathfrak{m}\mathfrak{o}\left\lbrack \alpha \right\rbrack = \mathfrak{o}\left\lbrack \alpha \right\rbrack ,\mathfrak{m}\mathfrak{o}\left\lbrack {\alpha }^{-1}\right\rbrack = \mathfrak{o}\left\lbrack {\alpha }^{-1}\right\rbrack \) . Then \( {1\varepsilon }\mathfrak{{mo}}\left\lbrack \alph...
Yes
Lemma 2. Let \( \varphi \) be a valuation of a field \( \Phi ,{\Phi }_{0} \) a subfeld of finite co-dimension in \( \Phi \) . Then the value group of \( \Phi \) is order isomorphic to a subgroup of the value group of \( {\Phi }_{0} \) (relative to the restriction of \( \varphi \) ).
Proof. Let \( \xi \) e \( \Phi \) and let \( {\alpha }_{1}{\xi }^{{n}_{1}} + {\alpha }_{2}{\xi }^{{n}_{2}} + \cdots + {\alpha }_{k}{\xi }^{{n}_{k}} = 0 \) where the \( {\alpha }_{i} \neq 0 \) in \( {\Phi }_{0} \) and \( {n}_{1} > {n}_{2} > \cdots > {n}_{k} \) . As in the case of non-archimedean real valuations, if \( \...
Yes
Lemma 1. Let \( \mathfrak{o} \) be a commutative ring, \( \mathfrak{A} \) an ideal in \( \mathfrak{o} \) and \( S \) a non-vacuous multiplicatively closed subset of \( \mathfrak{o} \) such that \( \mathfrak{A} \cap S = \varnothing \) . Then there exists a prime ideal \( \mathfrak{P} \) in \( \mathfrak{o} \) such that \...
Proof. Let \( U \) be the collection of ideals \( \mathfrak{B} \) in \( \mathfrak{o} \) such that: 1 . \( \mathfrak{B} \supseteq \mathfrak{A},2.\mathfrak{B} \cap S = \varnothing \) . Then \( U \) is non-vacuous since \( \mathfrak{A} \) e \( U \) . We order the elements of \( U \) by inclusion. Let \( V \) be a linearly...
Yes
Theorem 12. Let \( \mathfrak{A} \) be an ideal in the commutative ring \( \mathfrak{o} \) . Then the radical \( \Re \left( \mathfrak{A}\right) = \cap \mathfrak{P} \) the intersection of the prime ideals \( \mathfrak{B} \) containing \( \mathfrak{A} \) .
Proof. Let \( {a\varepsilon }\Re \left( \mathfrak{A}\right) \) and let \( \mathfrak{P} \) be a prime ideal containing \( \mathfrak{A} \) . A suitable power \( {a}^{n}\varepsilon \mathfrak{A} \) so \( {a}^{n}\varepsilon \mathfrak{P} \) . Since \( \mathfrak{P} \) is prime, this implies that \( {a\varepsilon }\widetilde{\...
Yes
Theorem 13. If the algebra \( \mathrm{P} = \Phi \left\lbrack {{\gamma }_{1},{\gamma }_{2},\cdots ,{\gamma }_{n}}\right\rbrack \) over \( \Phi \) generated by the \( {\gamma }_{i} \) is a field, then the \( {\gamma }_{i} \) are algebraic over \( \Phi \) .
Proof. Let \( \Phi \left\lbrack {{x}_{1},{x}_{2},\cdots ,{x}_{n}}\right\rbrack \) be the polynomial algebra over \( \Phi \) in indeterminates \( {x}_{i} \) and consider the homomorphism of this algebra onto \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) mapping \( {x}_{i} \rightarrow {\gamma }_{i},1 \leq i \leq n \) . Let \( \mathfrak{P} \) be...
Yes
Lemma 1. If \( \mathfrak{o} \) is a commutative ring (with an identity 1), any proper ideal \( \mathfrak{A} \) of \( \mathfrak{o} \) can be imbedded in a maximal ideal.
Proof. The proof is obtained as a special case of the argument in the proof of Lemma 1 of \( §{12} \) . We let \( S = \{ 1\} \), so \( S \) is multiplicatively closed and \( S \cap \mathfrak{A} = \varnothing \) . Let \( U \) be the set of ideals \( \mathfrak{B} \) such that \( \mathfrak{B} \supseteq \mathfrak{A} \) and...
Yes
Theorem 15. Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be a finite dimensional extension field of a field which is complete with respect to a non-trivial real valuation \( \varphi \) . Then if \( \varphi \) can be extended to a real valuation of \( \mathrm{P} \), this valuation is unique and is given by the formula\n\n(38)\n\n\[ \varphi \le...
Proof. Assume the extension \( \varphi \) exists and suppose there exists a \( {\rho \varepsilon }\mathrm{P} \) such that (38) does not hold. Then \( \varphi \left( {\rho }^{n}\right) \neq \varphi \left( {N\left( \rho \right) }\right) \), so \( \rho \neq 0 \) and either \( \varphi \left( {\rho }^{n}\right) < \varphi \l...
Yes
Lemma 3. Let \( \Phi \) be a field which is complete relative to a real valuation \( \varphi \) and let \( {x}^{2} - {ax} + b = 0 \) be an equation with coefficients \( a, b \) in \( \Phi \) such that \( \varphi {\left( a\right) }^{2} > {4\varphi }\left( b\right) \) . Then the equation has roots in \( \Phi \) .
Proof. A non-zero root \( \alpha \) of this equation will be a root of \( \alpha = a - b{\alpha }^{-1} \) . We shall obtain such a root as a limit of a sequence \( \left\{ {a}_{n}\right\} \) where \( {a}_{n} \) is defined recursively by \( {a}_{1} = \frac{1}{2}a,{a}_{n + 1} = \) \( a - b{a}_{n}{}^{-1} \) . We show firs...
Yes
Theorem 17. If \( \Phi \) is complete relative to a real valuation \( \varphi \) and \( \mathrm{P} \) is a finite dimensional extension of \( \Phi \), then the valuation can be extended in one and only one way to \( \mathrm{P} \) . The extension is given by the formula (38). Moreover, \( \mathrm{P} \) is complete relat...
15. Extension of real valuations to finite dimensional extension fields. We now take up the problem of determining all the extensions of a real valuation defined in a field \( \Phi \) to a finite dimensional extension field \( \mathrm{P}/\Phi \) . The case in which \( \Phi \) is complete has been treated in the last se...
Yes
Theorem 19. Let \( \Phi \) be a field with a non-archimedean real valuation. Let \( \mathrm{P} \) be a finite dimensional extension field of \( \Phi ,{\psi }_{1},{\psi }_{2},\cdots \) , \( {\psi }_{h} \) the different valuations of \( \mathrm{P} \) which extend \( \varphi \) and let \( {e}_{i},{f}_{i} \) be the ramific...
Proof. Let \( {\mathrm{E}}_{i} \) be the completion of \( \mathrm{P} \) relative to \( {\psi }_{i} \) . Then for \( \Phi \) the completion of \( \Phi \) and \( {n}_{i} = \left\lbrack {{\mathrm{E}}_{i} : \bar{\Phi }}\right\rbrack \) we have \( \sum {n}_{i} \leq n \) and \( \sum {n}_{i} = \) \( n \) for \( \mathrm{P} \) ...
Yes
Theorem 1. If \( \Phi \) is real closed, then any element of \( \Phi \) is either a square or the negative of a square.
Proof. Let \( \alpha \) be an element of \( \Phi \) which is not a square. Then we can construct the proper algebraic extension \( \Omega = \Phi \left( \sqrt{\alpha }\right) \) . This field is not formally real, so there exist \( {\beta }_{i},{\gamma }_{i} \) not all 0 in \( \Phi \) such that \( \sum {\left( {\beta }_{...
Yes
Theorem 2. Any real closed field can be ordered in one and only one way. Any automorphism of such a field is an order isomorphism.
Proof. Let \( P \) be the subset of non-zero squares in the real closed field \( \Phi \) . Then \( 0 \notin P \) and, if \( \alpha \neq 0 \) and \( \alpha \notin P \), then \( - {\alpha \varepsilon P} \) by Theorem 1. If \( \alpha = {\beta }^{2} \) and \( \gamma = {\delta }^{2}{\varepsilon P} \), then \( \alpha + {\gam...
Yes
Theorem 3. Let \( \Phi \) be a formally real field and let \( \Omega \) be an algebraic closure of \( \Phi \) . Then \( \Omega \) contains a real closed field \( \Delta \) containing \( \Phi \) .
Proof. We consider the collection of formally real subfields of \( \Omega \) containing \( \Phi \) . This collection is not vacuous since it contains \( \Phi \) . Moreover, it is clear that the collection is inductive, so, by Zorn's lemma, it contains a maximal element \( \Delta \) . If \( \Delta \) is not real closed,...
Yes
Theorem 4. If \( \Phi \) is real closed, then every polynomial of odd degree with coefficients in \( \Phi \) has a root belonging to \( \Phi \) .
Proof. The result is clear for polynomials of degree 1 and we use induction on the degree \( n \) of \( f\left( x\right) \) . If \( f\left( x\right) \) is reducible, one of its factors is of odd degree so it has a root in \( \Phi \) . Hence we may assume \( f\left( x\right) \) is irreducible. Let \( \Delta = \Phi \left...
Yes
Theorem 6. If \( \Phi \) is a field such that \( \sqrt{-1}{\psi \Phi } \) and \( \Phi \left( \sqrt{-1}\right) \) is algebraically closed, then \( \Phi \) is real closed.
Proof. Suppose \( \Phi \) satisfies the conditions. We note first that the irreducible polynomials of positive degrees in \( \Phi \left\lbrack x\right\rbrack \) have degree 1 or 2. Let \( f\left( x\right) \) be such a polynomial and let \( \theta \) be a root of \( f\left( x\right) \) contained in \( \Omega = \Phi \lef...
Yes
Theorem 8. Every ordered field \( \Phi \) has a real closure. If \( {\Phi }_{1} \) and \( {\Phi }_{2} \) are ordered fields with the real closures \( {\Delta }_{1} \) and \( {\Delta }_{2} \), respectively, then any order isomorphism of \( {\Phi }_{1} \) onto \( {\Phi }_{2} \) has a unique extension to an isomorphism of...
Proof. Let \( \Phi \) be an ordered field, \( \Omega \) an algebraic closure of \( \Phi \) . Let \( \mathrm{E} \) be the subfield of \( \Omega \) obtained by adjoining to \( \Phi \) the square roots of all the positive elements of \( \Phi \) . Then \( \mathrm{E} \) is formally real and \( \Omega \) is an algebraic clos...
Yes
Theorem 9. Let \( \Gamma \) be a finite dimensional extension of the field of rational numbers. Then the number of distinct orderings of \( \Gamma \) is the same as the number of isomorphisms of \( \Gamma /{R}_{0} \) into the field \( {\Delta }_{0}/{R}_{0} \) of real algebraic numbers.
In particular, this number cannot exceed \( \left\lbrack {\Gamma : {R}_{0}}\right\rbrack \) and there are no orderings of \( \Gamma = {R}_{0}\left( \theta \right) \) if and only if the minimum polynomial of \( \theta \) over \( {R}_{0} \) has no real roots, that is, no roots in \( {\Delta }_{0} \) .
No
Theorem 10. Let \( \Phi \) be a field of characteristic \( \neq 2 \) . Then an element \( \rho \neq 0 \) in \( \Phi \) is totally positive in \( \Phi \) if and only if \( \rho \) is a sum of squares of elements of \( \Phi \) .
Proof. If \( 0 \neq \rho = \sum {\alpha }_{i}{}^{2} \), then clearly \( \rho > 0 \) in every ordering of \( \Phi \) . Conversely, assume \( \rho \neq 0 \) is not a sum of squares in \( \Phi \) . Let \( \Omega \) be an algebraic closure of \( \Phi \) and consider the collection of subfields \( \mathrm{E} \) of \( \Omega...
Yes
Theorem 13. Let \( \Phi \) be a field of real numbers, \( \Phi \left( {x}_{i}\right) \equiv \Phi \left( {{x}_{1},\cdots }\right. \) , \( \left. {x}_{n}\right) \) the field of rational expressions in \( n \) indeterminates \( {x}_{i} \) with coefficients in \( \Phi \) and suppose an ordering has been given to \( \Phi \l...
We shall prove Theorem 13-after some necessary preliminaries -by induction on the number \( n \) of \( {x}_{i} \) . The result is clear if \( n = 0 \) since in this case \( \Phi \left( {x}_{i}\right) = \Phi \), so the functions are just constant functions. It remains to prove the inductive step, so we assume the result...
Yes
Theorem 15. Let \( F\left( {{t}_{i};x, y}\right) \) e \( {R}_{0}\left\lbrack {{t}_{1},\cdots ,{t}_{r};x, y}\right\rbrack, G\left( {{t}_{i};x}\right) \) e \( {R}_{0}\left\lbrack {{t}_{1},\cdots ,{t}_{r};x}\right\rbrack ,{t}_{i}, x, y \) indeterminates, \( {R}_{0} \) the field of rational numbers. Then one can determine ...
The proof of this theorem is essentially a formalization of the decision method of the last section. We consider first some necessary preliminary notions.\n\nWe shall call the set \( {\Phi }^{\left( r\right) } \) of \( r \) -tuples \( \left( {{\tau }_{1},{\tau }_{2},\cdots ,{\tau }_{r}}\right) ,{\tau }_{i}{\varepsilon ...
Yes
Theorem 1.3. (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic) Every integer \( n > 1 \) is a product of positive primes unique up to order, i.e., there exist unique primes\n\n(*) \n\n\[ \n1 < {p}_{1} < \cdots < {p}_{r} \n\] \n\n\[ \n\text{and unique integers}{e}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{r} > 0\text{such that}n = {p}_{1}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots...
Assuming this theorem is true (Euclid knew its proof and we shall prove in Theorem 4.16) below, we show Statement 4.
No
Theorem 1.8. (Cantor) The set \( \mathbb{R} \) of real numbers is not countable.
Proof. Suppose that \( \mathbb{R} \) is countable. As \( \mathbb{R} \) and the closed interval \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) have the same cardinality by Exercise \( {1.12}\left( 9\right) \), the interval \( \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) must also be countable by the first fact above. As \( {\mathbb{Z}}^{ ...
No
Corollary 2.13. Let \( n \in {\mathbb{Z}}^{ + } \) . Then there exist \( n \) consecutive composite (i.e., non-prime and not \( 0 \) or \( \pm 1 \) ) positive integers.
Proof. Let \( m \in {\mathbb{Z}}^{ + } \) and \( N = {\left( m\right) }_{n + 1} = m\left( {m + 1}\right) \cdots \left( {m + n}\right) \) . Then by the example, we have \( \left( {n + 1}\right) ! \mid N \) . If follows that for any integer \( s \) satisfying \( 2 \leq s \leq n + 1 \), we have \( s \mid N + s \) . So the...
Yes
Corollary 2.14. Let \( m \) and \( n \) be positive integers with \( m \leq n \) . Define the binomial coefficients\n\n\[ \left( \begin{matrix} m \\ n \end{matrix}\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \frac{m!}{\left( {m - n}\right) !n!} = \frac{m\left( {m - 1}\right) \cdots \left( {m - n + 1}\right) }{n!} \]\n\nand\n\n\[ \left(...
Proof. We know that \( \left( \begin{matrix} m \\ n \end{matrix}\right) = \frac{{\left( m - n + 1\right) }_{n}}{n!} \) is an integer by the example. The second statement follows from the identity\n\n\[ \left( \begin{matrix} - m \\ n \end{matrix}\right) = {\left( -1\right) }^{n}\left( \begin{matrix} m + n - 1 \\ n \end{...
Yes
Corollary 2.15. Let \( p > 1 \) be a prime, then\n\n\[ \left( \begin{array}{l} p \\ 1 \end{array}\right) ,\left( \begin{array}{l} p \\ 2 \end{array}\right) ,\ldots ,\left( \begin{matrix} p \\ p - 1 \end{matrix}\right) \]\n\nare all divisible by \( p \), i.e, \( p \mid \left( \begin{array}{l} p \\ n \end{array}\right) \...
Proof. If \( 1 \leq n \leq p - 1 \), then the example says that\n\n\[ n! \mid p\left( {p - 1}\right) \cdots \left( {p - n + 1}\right) = {\left( p - n + 1\right) }_{n} \]\n\nWe also know that \( s \) and \( p \) have no common non-trivial factors if \( 1 < \) \( s < p \) . (Proof?) We say that \( s \) and \( p \) are re...
No
Theorem 3.3. Let \( n \) be a positive integer and \( p \) a positive prime. Suppose that \( {p}^{e}\parallel n! \), then\n\n\[ e = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{\infty }\left\lbrack \frac{n}{{p}^{i}}\right\rbrack \]
Proof. If \( {p}^{i} > n \), then \( \left\lbrack \frac{n}{{p}^{i}}\right\rbrack = 0 \) ; so the sum is really a finite sum. We prove the result by induction of \( n \) .\n\n\( n = 1 \) . There is nothing to prove.\n\nWe can, therefore, make the following:\n\nInduction Hypothesis. Let \( {e}^{\prime } = \mathop{\sum }\...
Yes
Using the properties of [ ], we compute \( e \) such that \( {7}^{e}\parallel {1000}! \) .
\[ \left\lbrack \frac{1000}{7}\right\rbrack = {142} \] \[ \left\lbrack \frac{1000}{{7}^{2}}\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack \frac{\left\lbrack \frac{1000}{7}\right\rbrack }{7}\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack \frac{142}{7}\right\rbrack = {20} \] \[ \left\lbrack \frac{1000}{{7}^{3}}\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack \frac{\left\lbrack...
Yes
Corollary 3.6. Suppose that \( {a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{r} \) are non-negative integers sat-isfing \( {a}_{1} + \cdots + {a}_{r} = n \), then the multinomial coefficient \( \frac{n!}{{a}_{1}!\cdots {a}_{r}!} \) is an integer.
Proof. By the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic 4.16 and the theorem, it suffices to prove for each prime \( p \), we have\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{\infty }\left\lbrack \frac{n}{{p}^{i}}\right\rbrack \geq \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{\infty }\left\lbrack \frac{{a}_{1}}{{p}^{i}}\right\rbrack + \cdots +...
Yes
Theorem 4.2. (Division Algorithm) Let \( m \) and \( n \) be integers with \( m \) positive. Then there exist unique integers \( q \) and \( r \) satisfying:\n\n(i) \( n = {qm} + r \) .\n\n(ii) \( 0 \leq r < m \)
Proof. We have two things to show: existence and uniqueness. We first show\n\nUniqueness: Let \( \\left( {q, r}\\right) \) and \( \\left( {{q}^{\\prime },{r}^{\\prime }}\\right) \) be two pairs of integers satisfying the conclusion. We must show \( q = {q}^{\\prime } \) and \( r = {r}^{\\prime } \) . We have\n\n(*)\n\n...
Yes
Theorem 4.5. Let \( n \neq 0 \) and \( m \) be integers. Then a gcd of \( m \) and \( n \) exists and is unique.
Proof. Uniqueness: If both \( d \) and \( {d}^{\prime } \) satisfy \( \left( i\right) ,\left( {ii}\right) \), and \( \left( {iii}\right) \) then \( d\left| {{d}^{\prime }\text{and}{d}^{\prime }}\right| d \) so \( d = \pm {d}^{\prime } \) by Property 4.1(4), hence \( d = \left| d\right| = \) \( \left| {d}^{\prime }\righ...
No
Theorem 4.11. (Euclid’s Lemma) Let \( a, b \) be integers and \( p \) be a prime satisfying \( p \mid {ab} \). Then \( p \mid a \) or \( p \mid b \).
(proof of) Euclid’s Lemma. If \( p \) is a prime and \( p \mid {ab} \) but \( p/a \), then \( \left( {p, a}\right) = 1 \) as only \( \pm 1, \pm p \) divide \( p \). Since \( p \mid {ab} \), we conclude that \( p \mid b \) by (3).
Yes
Theorem 4.16. (The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic) Every integer \( n > 1 \) is a product of positive primes unique up to order, i.e., there exist unique primes\n\n(*) \n\n\[ \n1 < {p}_{1} < \cdots < {p}_{r} \n\] \nand integers \( {e}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{r} > 0 \) such that \( n = {p}_{1}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots {p}_{r}^{{e}_{...
Proof. Existence. Let\n\n\[ \nS = \{ n > 1\text{ in }\mathbb{Z} \mid n\text{ is not a product of primes }\} . \n\] \n\nWe must show \( S = \varnothing \) . Suppose this is false. By the Well-Ordering Principle, there exists a minimal element \( n \in S \) . Clearly, no prime lies in \( S \), so \( n \) is not a prime. ...
No
Proposition 5.11. Let \( \sim \) be an equivalence relation on \( A \) . Then\n\n\[ \nA = \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{\bar{A}}\bar{a} \n\]\n\nIn particular, if \( a, b \in A \), then\n\n\[ \n\text{either}\bar{a} = \bar{b}\text{or}\bar{a} \cap \bar{b} = \varnothing \text{,} \n\]\n\nhence\n\n\[ \n\bar{a} = \bar{b}\text{if ...
Proof. As \( a \sim a \) for all \( a \in A \) by Reflexitivity and \( a \in \bar{a} \) by definition, we have \( A = \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{A}\bar{a} \) . By Symmetry, we have \( a \sim b \) if \( \bar{a} = \bar{b} \) . If \( c \in \bar{a} \cap \bar{b} \), then \( c \sim a \) and \( c \sim b \), so \( a \sim c \) b...
Yes
Proposition 6.3. Let \( m > 1 \) in \( \mathbb{Z} \) . Then \( \equiv {\;\operatorname{mod}\;m} \) is an equivalence relation. In particular,\n\n\[ \mathbb{Z} = \overline{0} \vee \overline{1} \vee \cdots \vee \overline{m - 1} \]\n\nWrite \( \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z} \) for \( \mathbb{Z}/ \equiv {\;\operatorname{mod}\;m} \...
Proof. Exercise.
No
Lemma 6.8. Let \( m, n,{a}_{i} \), and \( 1 \leq i \leq r \) be integers.\n\n(1) If \( \left( {{a}_{i}, m}\right) = 1 \) for \( i = 1,\ldots, r \), then \( \left( {{a}_{1}\cdots {a}_{r}, m}\right) = 1 \) .
Proof. (1). By induction, it suffices to do the case \( r = 2 \) . (Why?) By Key Observation (4.13), we have equations\n\n\[ \n{x}_{1}{a}_{1} + {y}_{1}m = 1 = {x}_{2}{a}_{2} + {y}_{2}m, \n\]\n\nfor some \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2},{y}_{1},{y}_{2} \in \mathbb{Z} \), so\n\n\[ \n1 = \left( {{x}_{1}{a}_{1} + {y}_{1}m}\right) \left(...
No
Theorem 6.9. (Chinese Remainder Theorem) Let \( {m}_{i} \) be integers with \( \left( {{m}_{i},{m}_{j}}\right) = 1 \) for \( 1 \leq i, j \leq r \) and \( i \neq j \) . Set \( m = {m}_{1}\cdots {m}_{r} \) and suppose that \( {c}_{1},\ldots ,{c}_{r} \) are integers. Then there exists an integer \( x \) satisfying all of ...
Proof. Existence. Let \( {n}_{i} = \frac{m}{{m}_{i}} = {m}_{1}\cdots \widehat{{m}_{i}}\cdots {m}_{r} \) where \( \hat{} \) means omit. By Lemma 6.8 (1), we have \( \left( {{m}_{i},{n}_{i}}\right) = 1 \) for \( 1 \leq i \leq r \), so by Key Observation 4.13, there exist equations\n\n\[ 1 = {d}_{i}{m}_{i} + {e}_{i}{n}_{i...
Yes
Proposition 9.2. Let \( G \) be a group and \( H \) be a non-empty subset of \( G \) . Then \( H \) is a subgroup of \( G \) if and only if the following two conditions hold:\n\n(i) If \( a \) and \( b \) are elements of \( H \), then \( {ab} \) is an element of \( H \) .\n\n[We say that \( H \) is closed under \( \cdo...
Proof. \( \left( \Rightarrow \right) \) follows from the definition of subgroup, since by definition, \( {e}_{G} = {e}_{H} \) .\n\n\( \left( \Leftarrow \right) \) : We first note that \( \left( i\right) \) and \( \left( {ii}\right) \) implies \( \left( *\right) \) for if \( a, b \in H \), then \( a,{b}^{-1} \in H \), h...
Yes
Corollary 9.3. Let \( G \) be a group and \( H \subset G \) a non-empty subset. If \( H \) is a finite set, then \( H \) is a subgroup if and only if \( H \) is closed under \( \cdot \) .
Proof. We need only check:\n\n\( \left( \Leftarrow \right) \) : It suffices to show if \( a \in H \) then \( {a}^{-1} \in H \) . Our hypothesis implies that\n\n\[ S \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ {{a}^{n} \mid n \in {\mathbb{Z}}^{ + }}\right\} \subset H\text{is also a finite set.} \]\n\nWe need the following, whose proof ...
No
Theorem 9.9. (Classification of Cyclic Groups) Let \( G = \langle a\rangle \) be a cyclic group and \( \theta : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow G \) the map given by \( m \rightarrow {a}^{m} \) . Then \( \theta \) is a group epimorphism. It is an isomorphism if and only if \( G \) is infinite. If \( G \) is finite, then \( \lef...
Proof. As \( \theta \left( {i + j}\right) = {a}^{i + j} = {a}^{i}{a}^{j} = \theta \left( i\right) \theta \left( j\right) \), the map is a group homomorphism. It is clearly an epimorphism.\n\nWe must show that \( \theta \) is an isomorphism if and only if \( \left| G\right| \) is infinite and if not then \( \ker \theta ...
Yes
Theorem 10.4. (Lagrange’s Theorem) Let \( G \) be a finite group and \( H \) a subgroup of \( G \). Then \[ \left| G\right| = \left\lbrack {G : H}\right\rbrack \left| H\right| \text{. In particular,}\left| H\right| \left| \right| G\left| \right| \text{and}\left\lbrack {G : H}\right\rbrack \left| \right| G \mid \text{.}...
Proof. We begin with the following: Claim 10.5. If \( G \) is an arbitrary group (i.e., without assuming it is finite) and \( H \) a subgroup, then \( \left| {aH}\right| = \left| H\right| \) for all \( a \in G \). Define the left translation map \[ {\lambda }_{a} : H \rightarrow {aH}\text{ by }h \mapsto {ah}. \] By our...
Yes
Corollary 10.9. Let \( G \) be a group and \( K \) and \( H \) two finite subgroups of \( G \) of relatively prime degree, then \( K \cap H = \left\{ {e}_{G}\right\} \) .
Proof. We leave this as an exercise.
No
Corollary 10.12. Let \( G \) be a finite group and \( a \in G \) . Then \( {a}^{\left| G\right| } = e \) .
Proof. If \( n \) is the order of \( \langle a\rangle \), then \( \left| G\right| = {nm} \) for some \( m \in {\mathbb{Z}}^{ + } \) so \( e = {\left( {a}^{n}\right) }^{m} = {a}^{\left| G\right| } \) .
Yes
Corollary 10.13. (Euler’s Theorem) Let \( m, n \) be relatively prime integers with \( m > 1 \) . Then \( {n}^{\varphi \left( m\right) } \equiv 1{\;\operatorname{mod}\;m} \), where \( \varphi \) is the Euler \( \varphi \) -function.
Proof. We have shown that the unit group \( {\left( \mathbb{Z}/mZ\right) }^{ \times } \) is given by\n\n\[ \n{\left( \mathbb{Z}/mZ\right) }^{ \times } = \{ \bar{a} \mid a \in \mathbb{Z},\left( {a, m}\right) = 1\}\n\]\n\nand by definition, its cardinality is \( \varphi \left( m\right) \) .
No
Corollary 10.14. (Fermat's Little Theorem) Let \( p \) be a positive prime integer. Then \( {n}^{p} \equiv n{\;\operatorname{mod}\;p} \) for all integers \( n \) . If \( p \nmid n \), then \( {n}^{p - 1} \equiv 1 \) \( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;p} \) .
Proof. As \( \varphi \left( p\right) = p - 1 \), this follows from Euler’s Theorem together with the observation that \( {0}^{p} = 0 \) .
No
Lemma 11.2. Let \( G \) be a group and \( x \in G \) . Then \( {\theta }_{x} : G \rightarrow G \) is an isomorphism. In particular, if \( H \subset G \) is a subgroup, so is \( {\theta }_{x}\left( H\right) \) and \( H \cong {\theta }_{x}\left( H\right) = {xH}{x}^{-1} \) . In particular, \( \left| H\right| = \left| {{xH...
Proof. Let \( g,{g}^{\prime } \in G \) . As \( {xg}{x}^{-1} = x{g}^{\prime }{x}^{-1} \) implies \( g = {g}^{\prime } \), the map \( {\theta }_{x} \) is one-to-one. The equation\n\n(11.3)\n\n\[ \n{\theta }_{x}\left( {g{g}^{\prime }}\right) = {xg}{g}^{\prime }{x}^{-1} = {xge}{g}^{\prime }{x}^{-1} = {xg}{x}^{-1}x{g}^{\pri...
Yes
Example 12.2. Let \( G \) be a group. The map \( \theta : G \rightarrow \operatorname{Aut}\left( G\right) \) given by \( x \mapsto \left( {{\theta }_{x} : g \mapsto {xg}{x}^{-1}}\right) \) is a group homomorphism.
If \( {\theta }_{x} = {1}_{G} \) , the identity map on \( G \), then \( {xg}{x}^{-1} = g \), i.e., \( {xg} = {gx} \) for all \( g \in g \) . Therefore, \( \ker \theta = Z\left( G\right) \), the center of \( G \) . By the First Isomorphism Theorem, \( \theta \) induces an isomorphism \( \bar{\theta } : G/Z\left( G\right...
No
Theorem 12.3. Let \( G \) be a group and \( H \) a normal subgroup of \( G \) . Then \( G/H \) is a group under the binary operation \( \cdot : G/H \times G/H \rightarrow \) \( G/H \) given by \( \left( {{aH},{bH}}\right) \mapsto {abH} \) . If this is the case then \( - : G \rightarrow G/H \) is a group epimorphism wit...
Proof. We first show that the map \( \cdot \) is well-defined. Suppose that \( {aH} = {a}^{\prime }H \) and \( {bH} = {b}^{\prime }H \) . We must show that \( {abH} = {a}^{\prime }{b}^{\prime }H \) . Equivalently, we must show that\n\n\[ \text{if}{a}^{\prime - 1}a,{b}^{\prime - 1}b \in H\text{then}x = {\left( {a}^{\pri...
Yes
Theorem 12.4. (General Cayley Theorem) Let \( H \) be an arbitrary subgroup of a group \( G \). Let \( S = G/H \), the set of left cosets of \( H \) in \( G \). For each \( x \in G \), let \( {\lambda }_{x} : S \rightarrow S \) be defined by \( {gH} \mapsto {xgH} \). Then \( {\lambda }_{x} \) is a permutation and the m...
Proof. We first must show that the map \( {\lambda }_{x} : S \rightarrow S \), called left multiplication by \( x \), is a permutation. But this is clear since \( {\lambda }_{{x}^{-1}} \) is easily checked to be its inverse.\n\nFor all \( x, y \in G \), we have \( {\lambda }_{xy}\left( {gH}\right) = {xygH} = {\lambda }...
Yes
Corollary 12.6. Let \( H \) be a subgroup of a group \( G \) with \( H < G \) . If there exists no normal subgroup \( N \) of \( G \) satisfying \( 1 < N \subset H \) then \( \lambda : G \rightarrow \sum \left( {G/H}\right) \) by \( x \mapsto \left( {{\lambda }_{x} : {aH} \mapsto {xaH}}\right) \) is a monomorphism.
Proof. \( \ker \lambda \) is the maximal such normal subgroup.
No
Corollary 12.7. (Useful Counting Result) Let \( G \) be a finite group, \( H \) a subgroup of \( G \) satisfying \( \left| G\right| /\left\lbrack {G : H}\right\rbrack \) !. Then there exists a normal subgroup \( N \) of \( G \) satisfying \( 1 < N \subset H \) . In particular, \( G \) is not a simple group.
Proof. Exercise.
No
Theorem 13.2. (Correspondence Principle) Let \( \varphi : G \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) be a group epimorphism.. Then\n\n(1) If \( A \) is a subgroup of \( G \) (respectively, a normal subgroup), then \( \varphi \left( A\right) \) is a subgroup of \( {G}^{\prime } \) (respectively, a normal subgroup). In particular, g...
Proof. Let \( K = \ker \varphi \) .\n\n(1). Let \( A \subset G \) be a subgroup, then \( {\left. \varphi \right| }_{A} : A \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) is a group homomorphism (why?), so \( \varphi \left( A\right) = {\left. \operatorname{im}\varphi \right| }_{A} \subset {G}^{\prime } \) is a subgroup. Next suppose that...
No
Theorem 13.4. (Third Isomorphism Theorem) Let \( G \) be a group with normal subgroups \( K \) and \( H \) satisfying \( K \subset H \) . Then the map\n\n\[ \varphi : G/K \rightarrow G/H\text{defined by}{xK} \rightarrow {xH} \]\n\n is a group epimorphism with kernel \( H/K \) and induces an isomorphism\n\n\[ \bar{\varp...
Proof. As \( K \) and \( H \) are normal subgroups of \( G \), we know that \( G/H \) and \( G/K \) are groups. If \( {xK} = {yK} \) then \( {y}^{-1}x \in K \subset H \), hence \( {xH} = {yH} \) . Therefore, \( \varphi \) is well-defined and clearly surjective. As \( \varphi \left( {xKyK}\right) = \varphi \left( {xyK}\...
Yes
Theorem 13.5. (Second Isomorphism Theorem) Let \( G \) be a group and \( H \) and \( N \) be subgroups with \( N \) normal in \( G \) . Then\n\n(1) \( H \cap N \vartriangleleft H \) .\n\n(2) \( {HN} = {NH} \) is a subgroup of \( G \) .\n\n(3) \( N \vartriangleleft {HN} \) .\n\n(4) \( H/H \cap N \cong {HN}/N \) .
Proof. (1). We know that \( H \cap N \) is a subgroup of \( H \) and it is a normal subgroup in \( H \), since \( N \) is normal in \( G \) and \( H \) is normal in \( H \) . (2). As \( {aN} = {Na} \) for all \( a \in G \) the sets \( {HN} \) and \( {NH} \) are equal, so we need only show it is a group. Let \( {h}_{1},...
Yes
Proposition 14.2. Let \( G \) be a finite abelian group and \( p > 0 \) a prime dividing the order of \( G \) . Then there exists an element of \( G \) of order \( p \) .
Proof. We prove this by induction on \( \left| G\right| \) . We may assume that \( G \neq 1 \) . As \( G \) has no nontrivial subgroups if and only if \( G \cong \mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z} \) for some prime \( p \), we may assume that \( \left| G\right| \) is not a prime. In particular, \( G \) has a subgroup \( 1 < H < G ...
Yes
Theorem 14.3. Let \( G \) be a finite abelian group and \( p > 0 \) a prime dividing \( \left| G\right| \), say \( \left| G\right| = {p}^{n}m \) with \( p \) and \( m \) relatively prime. Then \[ G\left( p\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ {x \in G \mid {x}^{{p}^{r}} = e\text{ some integer }r}\right\} \vartriangleleft...
Proof. The set \( G\left( p\right) \) is a subgroup of \( G \) (why?) and normal as \( G \) is abelian. As every element in \( G\left( p\right) \) has order a power of \( p \), it follows by the previous proposition that \( \left| {G\left( p\right) }\right| = {p}^{r} \) some \( r \geq 1 \) and by Lagrange’s Theorem tha...
Yes
Corollary 14.5. Let \( G \) be a finite abelian group of order \( n = {p}_{1}^{{m}_{1}}\cdots {p}_{r}^{{m}_{r}} \) with positive primes \( {p}_{1} < \cdots < {p}_{r} \) and positive integers \( {m}_{1},\ldots ,{m}_{r} \). Then \( G = G\left( {p}_{1}\right) \cdots G\left( {p}_{r}\right) \). Moreover, \( G \cong G\left( ...
Proof. As \( G\left( {p}_{1}\right) \cdots G\left( {p}_{r}\right) \) is a group and we know that\n\n\[ \left| {G\left( {p}_{1}\right) \cdots G\left( {p}_{r}\right) }\right| = \left| {G\left( {p}_{1}\right) }\right| \cdots \left| {G\left( {p}_{r}\right) }\right| \]\n\nby Lemma 14.1, the first statement follows by the th...
Yes
Lemma 14.6. Let \( G \) be a finite additive p-group and suppose that the element \( x \) in \( G \) has maximal order. Then there exists a subgroup \( H \) of \( G \) satisfying \( G = \langle x\rangle \oplus H \) .
Proof. Let \( {p}^{n} \) be the order of \( x \) . By the Well-ordering Principle, there exists a maximal subgroup \( H \) of \( G \) satisfying \( H \cap \langle x\rangle = \{ 0\} \) . Therefore, \( \langle x\rangle + H = \langle x\rangle \oplus H \), and we are done if \( \langle x\rangle + H = G \) . So suppose not....
Yes
Corollary 14.7. Let \( G \) be a finite p-group. Then \( G \) is a product of cyclic p-groups.
Proof. We may assume that \( G \) is additive and not cyclic. In particular \( \left| G\right| > p \) . By the lemma, \( G = \langle x\rangle \oplus H \) for some \( x \) in \( G \) and subgroup \( H \) of \( G \) . As \( G \) is not cyclic, \( H \neq G \), and the result follows by induction on \( \left| G\right| \) .
No
Proposition 14.9. Every finite abelian group is a product of cyclic groups.
Proof. By 14.5 every finite abelian group is a product of finite abelian \( p \) -groups. By Corollary 14.5, every finite abelian \( p \) -group is a product of cyclic \( p \) -groups.
Yes
Theorem 14.10. (Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups) Let \( G \) be a finite additive group and for each prime \( p > 0 \) dividing \( G \) , let \( G\left( p\right) \) be the unique p-subgroup of \( G \) of maximal order. Then\n\n\[ G = {\bigoplus }_{p\parallel G\parallel }G\left( p\right) \]\n\nMoreover, if ...
Proof. Let \( p\left| \right| G \mid \) . By Corollary 14.5 and Proposition 14.9, it suffices to show \( G\left( p\right) \cong \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{r}\mathbb{Z}/{p}^{{n}_{i}}\mathbb{Z} \) and uniquely up to isomorphism. As every abelian \( p \) -group is isomorphic to a product of cyclic \( p \) -groups by...
Yes
Proposition 15.1. Let \( G \) be a finitely generated group and \( n \) a positive integer. Then there exist finitely many subgroups (if any) of \( G \) of index \( n \) .
Proof. Let \( G = \left\langle {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{r}}\right\rangle \) and\n\n(*) \n\n\[ \varphi : G \rightarrow {S}_{n} \] \n\nbe a group homomorphism. Then the map \( \varphi \) is completely determined by \n\n\[ \varphi \left( {a}_{1}\right) ,\ldots ,\varphi \left( {a}_{r}\right) \] \n\nin the finite set \( {S}_{n...
Yes
Corollary 15.2. Let \( G \) be a finitely generated group. Suppose \( G \) contains a subgroup \( H \) of finite index. Then there exists a characteristic subgroup \( K \) of \( H \) of finite index in \( G \) .
Proof. By the proposition, there exist finitely many subgroups\n\n\[ \nH = {H}_{1},\ldots ,{H}_{m} \n\]\n\nof finite index \( \left\lbrack {G : H}\right\rbrack \) . It follows, given an automorphism \( \varphi \) of \( G \), that \( \varphi \left( H\right) = {H}_{i} \) for some \( i \), i.e., \( \varphi \) permutes the...
No
Theorem 15.3. Let \( G \) be a finitely generated group and \( H \) be a subgroup of finite index. Then \( H \) is a finitely generated group.
Proof. Let \( G = \left\langle {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{r}}\right\rangle \) and\n\n\[ \n{y}_{1} = e,\ldots ,{y}_{n} \n\] \n\nbe a transversal (i.e., a system of representatives for the cosets) of \( H \) in \( G \) . Let \n\n\[ \n\lambda : G \rightarrow \sum \left( {G/H}\right) \text{be given by}a \mapsto {\lambda }_{x} :...
Yes
Theorem 16.3. The following are true:\n\n(1) A subgroup of a solvable group is solvable.\n\n(2) The homomorphic image (i.e., the image of a group under a group homomorphism) of a solvable group is solvable.\n\n(3) If \( N \vartriangleleft G \) and both \( N \) and \( G/N \) are solvable then so is \( G \) .
Proof. We leave this as an exercise. It is important that you do this exercise, as it will teach you how to use the isomorphism theorems.
No
Proposition 16.5. Let \( G \) be a group. Then \( {G}^{\left( n\right) } \) is a characteristic subgroup of \( {G}^{\left( n - 1\right) } \) for all \( n \) . In particular, \( {G}^{\left( n\right) } \) is characteristic in \( G \) , and\n\n\[ \n{G}^{\left( n\right) } \subset {G}^{\left( n - 1\right) } \subset \cdots \...
Proof. Being characteristic is transitive, so this follows immediately, using Properties 16.4
Yes
Theorem 16.6. Let \( G \) be a group. Then \( G \) is solvable if and only if there exist an integer \( n \) such that \( {G}^{\left( n\right) } = 1 \) .
Proof. By Exercise 11.9(17), each factor group \( {G}^{\left( i\right) }/{G}^{\left( i + 1\right) } \) is abelian, hence if \( {G}^{\left( n\right) } = 1 \) for some \( n \), then \( G \) is solvable. Conversely, suppose that\n\n\[ 1 = {N}_{n} \subset {N}_{n - 1} \subset {N}_{n - 2} \subset \cdots \subset {N}_{1} \subs...
No