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Theorem 8.30 Let \( G \) be a nontrivial group of odd order.\n\n1) \( {G}^{\prime } < G \)\n\n2) G has a normal subgroup \( K \) of prime index.
Proof. Part 1) can be proved by induction on \( o\left( G\right) \) . If \( o\left( G\right) = 3 \), then \( G \) is abelian and \( {G}^{\prime } = \{ 1\} < G \) . Assume the result holds for groups of odd order less than \( o\left( G\right) \) and let \( o\left( G\right) \) be odd. Then the Feit-Thompson theorem impli...
Yes
Corollary 8.32 Let \( o\left( G\right) = {nm} \) where \( \left( {n, m}\right) = 1 \) . If \( G \) has a normal (Hall) subgroup \( N \) of order \( n \), then any subgroup \( H \) of \( G \) that has order \( {m}^{\prime } \) dividing \( m \) is contained in some complement of \( N \) .
Proof. The Schur-Zassenhaus Theorem implies that there is a \( K \leq G \) for which \( G = N \rtimes K \) . Then \( \left| {{NH} \cap K}\right| = {m}^{\prime } \) and\n\n\[ N \rtimes H = N \rtimes \left( {{NH} \cap K}\right) \]\n\nHence, the Schur-Zassenhaus Theorem implies that there exists \( a \in G \) for which\n\...
Yes
Theorem 8.33 Let \( p \) be a prime dividing \( n \) ! and let\n\n\[ n = {a}_{0} + {a}_{1}p + \cdots + {a}_{m}{p}^{m} \]\n\nbe the base-p representation of \( n \), that is, \( 0 \leq {a}_{k} < p \) . The largest exponent \( e \) of \( p \) for which \( {p}^{e} \mid n \) ! is\n\n\[ L\left( m\right) = \mathop{\sum }\lim...
Proof. The number of factors in \( n! = 1 \cdot 2\cdots n \) that are multiples of \( p \) is \( \lfloor n/p\rfloor \) where \( \lfloor x\rfloor \) is the floor of \( x \) . Among these \( \lfloor n/p\rfloor \) factors, there are \( \left\lfloor {n/{p}^{2}}\right\rfloor \) factors that are multiples of \( p \) . Thus,\...
Yes
Theorem 9.6 (R. Brauer and K. A. Fowler [4], 1955) Let \( G \) be a group of even order with exactly \( n \geq 1 \) involutions. Assume that \( Z\left( G\right) \) has odd order. Then either \( G \) has a subgroup of index 2 (which must be normal) or \( G \) has a proper subgroup \( H \) with\n\n\[ \left( {G : H}\right...
Equation (9.3) implies that for any involution \( b \), which we can assume is \( {x}_{1} \), we have\n\n\[ \frac{n}{\left| G\right| } = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{u}\frac{1}{\left| C\left( {x}_{i}\right) \right| } \geq \frac{1}{\left| C\left( b\right) \right| } \]\n\nthat is,\n\n\[ \frac{\left| G\right| }{n} \le...
Yes
1) (First \( \Omega \) -isomorphism theorem) Every \( \Omega \) -homomorphism \( \sigma : G \rightarrow H \) induces an \( \Omega \) -embedding \( \bar{\sigma } : G/\ker \left( \sigma \right) \hookrightarrow H \) defined by
\[ \bar{\sigma }\left( {g\ker \left( \sigma \right) }\right) = \sigma \left( g\right) \] and so \[ \frac{G}{\ker \left( \sigma \right) } \approx {}_{\Omega }\operatorname{im}\left( \sigma \right) \]
Yes
Theorem 10.4 A proper \( \Omega \) -series is an \( \Omega \) -composition series if and only if its factor groups are \( \Omega \) -simple.
Thus, a series\n\n\[ \mathcal{G} : {G}_{0} \vartriangleleft {G}_{1} \vartriangleleft \cdots \vartriangleleft {G}_{n} \]\n\nin \( G \) is a composition series if and only if its factor groups \( {G}_{k + 1}/{G}_{k} \) are simple and \( \mathcal{G} \) is a chief series if and only if each factor group \( {G}_{k + 1}/{G}_...
No
Theorem 10.8 Let \( G \) be an \( \Omega \) -group and let \( H, K \in {\operatorname{subn}}_{\Omega }\left( G\right) \) . Then\n\n\[ \exists {\operatorname{CompSer}}_{\Omega }\left( {H;K}\right) \; \Leftrightarrow \;{\operatorname{subn}}_{\Omega }\left( {H;K}\right) \text{ has BCC } \]
Proof of the following is left to the reader.
No
Theorem 10.13 Let\n\n\[ G = {H}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {H}_{n} = {K}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {K}_{m} \]\n\nwhere the factors \( {H}_{k} \) and \( {K}_{k} \) are indecomposable. If the composition\n\n\[ {\alpha }_{i, j} = \left( {\left. {\pi }_{{H}_{i}}\right| }_{{K}_{j}}\right) \circ \left( {\left. {\kappa }_{{K...
In attempting to show that a composition is an automorphism, we are reminded of Fitting’s lemma. We have assumed that \( {H}_{i} \) is indecomposable. Also, since the restriction and composition of normal maps is normal, \( {\alpha }_{i, j} \) is normal and so has normal higher images. Thus, if we assume that \( G \) h...
Yes
Theorem 10.15 (The Krull–Remak–Schmidt Theorem) Let \( G \) be a group that has BCC on normal subgroups. Suppose that\n\n\[ G = {H}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {H}_{n} = {K}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {K}_{m} \]\n\nwhere all factors \( {H}_{i} \) and \( {K}_{j} \) are indecomposable. Then \( n = m \) and there is a rein...
## True Uniqueness\n\nThe Krull-Remak-Schmidt Theorem gives uniqueness of the terms of a Remak decomposition up to isomorphism. Let us now consider the question of when a group \( G \) has an essentially unique Remak decomposition, that is, a Remak decomposition that is unique up to the order of the factors. First supp...
Yes
Theorem 10.16 Let \( G \) have \( {BCC} \) on normal subgroups and let\n\n\[ G = {H}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {H}_{n} \]\n\nbe a Remak decomposition of \( G \) . The following are equivalent:\n\n1) This Remak decomposition of \( G \) is essentially unique .\n\n2) \( {H}_{k} \) is invariant under all normal endomorphi...
If \( \alpha : {H}_{i} \rightarrow Z\left( G\right) \) is a nonzero homomorphism, then we can build a normal endomorphism \( \lambda : G \rightarrow G \) by specifying that\n\n\[ {\left. \lambda \right| }_{{H}_{k}} = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \alpha & \text{ if }k = i \\ 0 & \text{ if }k \neq i \end{array}\right. \]\n\...
Yes
Theorem 10.17 Let \( G \) have \( {BCC} \) on normal subgroups and let\n\n\[ G = {H}_{1} \ltimes \cdots \ltimes {H}_{n} \]\n\nbe a Remak decomposition of \( G \) .\n\n1) The following are equivalent:\n\na) This Remak decomposition of \( G \) is essentially unique.\n\nb) Every homomorphism \( \alpha : {H}_{i} \rightarro...
Proof. For part 2), if \( G = {G}^{\prime } \), then \( {H}_{i} = {H}_{i}^{\prime } \) for all \( i \) and so if \( \lambda : {H}_{i} \rightarrow Z\left( {H}_{j}\right) \) for \( j \neq i \), then for \( a, b \in {H}_{i} \), \n\n\[ \lambda \left( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \right) = \left\lbrack {{\lambda a},{\la...
Yes
Theorem 11.1 The following implications hold for a class \( \mathcal{K} \) of groups:\n\n1) subgroup \( \Rightarrow \) intersection\n\n2) quotient \( \Rightarrow \) cojoin\n\n3) seminormal join \( \Rightarrow \) normal join \( \Rightarrow \) direct product\n\n4) subgroup and direct product \( \Rightarrow \) cointersect...
Proof. Part 1) is clear. For part 2), we have\n\n\[ \frac{G}{HK} \approx \frac{G}{H}/\frac{HK}{H} \in \mathcal{K} \]\n\nFor part 3), the direct product \( H \boxplus K \) is the seminormal join of \( H \boxplus \{ 1\} \) and\n\n\( \{ 1\} \boxplus K \), each of which is in \( \mathcal{K} \) if \( H, K \in \mathcal{K} \)...
Yes
Theorem 11.3 Let \( \mathcal{K} \) be a class of groups.\n\n1) (Subgroup) If \( \mathcal{K} \) is closed under subgroup, then the \( {\mathcal{K}}_{s} \) and \( {\mathcal{K}}_{n} \) classes are closed under subgroup.
Proof. For 1), if \( \mathcal{K} \) is closed under subgroup, then (normal) \( \mathcal{K} \) -series are closed under intersection and so the \( {\mathcal{K}}_{s} \) and \( {\mathcal{K}}_{n} \) classes are closed under subgroup.
Yes
Theorem 11.7 Let \( G \) be nilpotent, with higher centers \( {\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right) \).\n\n1) If \( H \leq G \), then\n\n\[ H{\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right) \trianglelefteq H{\zeta }^{k + 1}\left( 1\right) \]\n\n2) If \( N \trianglelefteq G \), then\n\n\[ N \cap {\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right) = \{ 1\} \; \Rightarrow \;N...
Proof. For part 1), since \( \left\lbrack {G,{\zeta }^{k + 1}\left( 1\right) }\right\rbrack \leq {\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right) \), Theorem 3.41 implies that\n\n\[ \left\lbrack {H{\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right), H{\zeta }^{k + 1}\left( 1\right) }\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack {H{\zeta }^{k}\left( 1\right), H}\right\rbrack {\lef...
Yes
Theorem 11.8 The following are equivalent for a finite group \( G \):\n\n1) \( G \) is nilpotent.\n\n2) Every Sylow subgroup of \( G \) is normal.\n\n3) \( G \) is the direct product of its Sylow p-subgroups\n\n\[ G = \underset{p \in \mathcal{P}}{ \ltimes }{Y}_{p} \]\n\n4) If \( H \leq G \), then\n\n\[ H = \mathop{\bow...
Proof. Theorem 8.11 states that 2)-10) are equivalent. Moreover, Theorem 7.10 implies that a finite \( p \) -group is nilpotent and therefore so is any direct product of finite \( p \) -groups. Hence,6) implies 1). Theorem 11.7 shows that 1) implies 7). \( ▱ \)
No
Theorem 11.11 Let \( G \) be nilpotent.\n\n1) If \( H \leq G \), then\n\n\[ \operatorname{nilclass}\left( H\right) \leq \operatorname{nilclass}\left( G\right) \]\n\n2) If \( N \trianglelefteq G \), then\n\n\[ \operatorname{nilclass}\left( {G/N}\right) \leq \operatorname{nilclass}\left( G\right) \]\n\n3) (Fitting's theo...
Proof. The first two parts follow from Theorem 11.10. For part 3), Theorem 11.10 implies that\n\n\[ {\Gamma }_{HK}^{k}\left( {HK}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{{A}_{1},\ldots ,{A}_{k}, B \in \{ H, K\} }}{\Gamma }_{{A}_{1}}\cdots {\Gamma }_{{A}_{k}}\left( B\right) \]\n\nfor all \( k \geq 1 \) . Now, suppose that nil...
Yes
Theorem 11.13 Let \( G \) be a group and let \( N \trianglelefteq G \) . Then\n\n\[{\left( \frac{G}{N}\right) }^{\left( n\right) } = \frac{{G}^{\left( n\right) }N}{N}\]\n\nfor all \( n \geq 0 \) .
Proof. For any \( N \leq H \trianglelefteq G \), we have\n\n\[{\left( \frac{H}{N}\right) }^{\prime } = \left\lbrack {\frac{H}{N},\frac{H}{N}}\right\rbrack = \frac{\left\lbrack {H, H}\right\rbrack N}{N} = \frac{{H}^{\prime }N}{N}\]\n\nIn particular, for \( H = G \), we have\n\n\[{\left( \frac{G}{N}\right) }^{\prime } = ...
Yes
Theorem 11.15 Let \( G \) be solvable. Any minimal normal subgroup \( N \) of \( G \) is abelian. Moreover, if \( N \) contains a nontrivial element of finite order, then \( N \) is elementary abelian.
Proof. For the final statement, \( N \) has an element of prime order \( p \) and since\n\n\[ \n{N}_{p} \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ {x \in N \mid {x}^{p} = 1}\right\} \trianglelefteq N \n\]\n\nit follows that \( N = {N}_{p} \) is an elementary abelian group. \( ▱ \)
No
Theorem 11.16 The following are equivalent for a group \( G \) that has a composition series.\n\n1) \( G \) is solvable.\n\n2) Every composition series for \( G \) has prime order factor groups.\n\n3) G has a cyclic series in which each factor group has prime order.\n\n4) \( G \) has a cyclic series, that is, \( G \) i...
Proof. We have seen that 1) implies 2) and it is clear that 2) implies 3), that 3) implies 4) and that 4) implies 1). Thus, 1)-4) are equivalent.\n\nIt is clear that 5) implies 1). If \( G \) is solvable, the factor groups \( {G}_{k + 1}/{G}_{k} \) of a chief series are minimal normal in the solvable group \( G/{G}_{k}...
Yes
1) (Feit-Thompson Theorem) Any group of odd order is solvable; equivalently, every finite nonabelian simple group has even order.
Proof. The equivalence in part 1) is left as an exercise. \( ▱ \)
No
Theorem 11.18 (Hall’s theorem,1928) Let \( G \) be a finite solvable group with \( o\left( G\right) = {ab} \), where \( \left( {a, b}\right) = 1 \) . Then \( G \) has a Hall subgroup of order \( a \) and all subgroups of order a are conjugate.
Proof. We may assume that \( a, b > 1 \) . The proof is by induction on \( o\left( G\right) \) . If \( o\left( G\right) = 1 \), the result holds trivially. Assume that it holds for all groups of order less than \( o\left( G\right) \) . If \( G \) does not have a minimal normal subgroup, then \( G \) is simple and solva...
Yes
Theorem 11.19 If a finite group \( G \) has a Hall \( {p}^{\prime } \) -subgroup for every prime \( p \) dividing \( o\left( G\right) \), then \( G \) is solvable.
Proof. Assume that the theorem is false and let \( G \) be a counterexample of smallest order. If \( G \) is not simple, then let \( N \) be a nontrivial proper normal subgroup of \( G \) . We leave it as an exercise to show that \( N \cap H \) is a Hall \( {p}^{\prime } \) - subgroup of \( N \) and \( {HN}/N \) is a H...
No
Theorem 12.1 Let \( X \) be a nonempty set. If \( \left( {F,\kappa }\right) \) and \( \left( {G,\lambda }\right) \) are universal for \( X \), then there is an isomorphism \( \sigma : F \approx G \) connecting the universal maps, that is, for which
Proof. There are unique mediating morphisms \( {\tau }_{\lambda } : F \rightarrow G \) and \( {\tau }_{\kappa } : G \rightarrow F \) for which\n\n\[{\tau }_{\lambda } \circ \kappa = \lambda \;\text{ and }\;{\tau }_{\kappa } \circ \lambda = \kappa\]\n\nand so\n\n\[{\tau }_{\lambda } \circ {\tau }_{\kappa } \circ \lambda...
Yes
Theorem 12.2 Let \( X \) be a nonempty set and let \( w\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) \) be a word over \( {X}^{\prime } \) . If \( \left( {{K}_{X},\kappa }\right) \) is universal on \( X \), then the following are equivalent:\n\n1) \( w\left( {\kappa {x}_{1},\ldots ,\kappa {x}_{n}}\right) = 1 \) in \( {F}_{X}...
Proof. Let \( G \) be a group and let \( {a}_{i} \in G \) for \( i = 1,\ldots, n \) . The function sending \( {x}_{i} \) to \( {a}_{i} \) can be lifted to a unique homomorphism \( \sigma : {F}_{X} \rightarrow G \) for which \( {\sigma \kappa }{x}_{i} = {a}_{i} \) and so\n\n\[ w\left( {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{n}}\right) = ...
No
Theorem 12.4 Let \( r \in W \) be a word that does not contain a subword of the form \( x{x}^{-1} \) or \( {x}^{-1}x \) for \( x \in X \) . If \( w \equiv r \), then there is a reduction from \( w \) to \( r \) that involves only removal rules.
Proof. Among all reductions from \( w \) to \( r \), select a reduction with the fewest number of steps and suppose that there is at least one insertion step. Denote the steps by \( {s}_{1},{s}_{2},\ldots ,{s}_{m} \) and suppose that step \( {s}_{k} \) results in the word \( {u}_{k} \) . Let \( {s}_{k} \) be the last i...
Yes
Theorem 12.5 Let \( {F}_{X} \) be the concrete free group on a set \( X \) and let \( j : X \rightarrow {F}_{X} \) be the inclusion map. Then the pair \( \left( {{F}_{X}, j}\right) \) is universal for \( X \) and so \( {F}_{X} \) is a free group on \( X \) .
Proof. Let \( f : X \rightarrow G \) . If \( \tau : {F}_{X} \rightarrow G \) is defined by \( {\tau \epsilon } = 1 \) and\n\n\[ \tau \left( {{x}_{1}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots {x}_{n}^{{e}_{n}}}\right) = f{\left( {x}_{1}\right) }^{{e}_{1}}\cdots f{\left( {x}_{n}\right) }^{{e}_{n}} \]\n\nfor \( {x}_{1}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots {x}_{n}^{{e}...
Yes
Theorem 12.6 Let \( X \) be a nonempty set. If \( \left( {K,\kappa }\right) \) and \( \left( {G,\lambda }\right) \) are \( \mathcal{K} \) -universal for \( X \), then there is an isomorphism \( \sigma : K \approx G \) for which
\[ \sigma \circ \kappa = \lambda \]
No
Theorem 12.7 Let \( \mathcal{K} \) be a class of groups and let \( X \) be an infinite set. Then \( {\mathcal{L}}_{X}\left( \mathcal{K}\right) \) is a fully invariant subgroup of the free group \( {F}_{X} \) .
Proof. It is clear that the product of two laws of \( \mathcal{K} \) -groups is a law of \( \mathcal{K} \) -groups, as is the inverse of a law of \( \mathcal{K} \) -groups. Also, if \( \sigma \in \operatorname{End}\left( {F}_{X}\right) \), then for any \( w\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) \in \mathcal{L}\left( \...
Yes
Theorem 12.9 Let \( \mathcal{K} = \mathcal{E}\left( \mathcal{L}\right) \) be an equational class of groups with laws \( \mathcal{L} \). 1) For any group \( G \), the verbal subgroup \( \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) = \left\langle {w\left( {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{n}}\right) \mid w \in \mathcal{L},{a}_{i} \in G}\right\rangle ...
Proof. Write \( F = {F}_{X} \). For part 1), if \( \sigma \in \operatorname{End}\left( G\right) \), then for any \( {a}_{i} \in G \), \( {\sigma w}\left( {{a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{n}}\right) = w\left( {\sigma {a}_{1},\ldots ,\sigma {a}_{n}}\right) \in \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) \) and so \( \mathcal{L}\left( G\right) \) is...
Yes
Let \( \mathcal{K} \) be the class of all finitely-generated groups. If \( w\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) \) is a law of \( \mathcal{K} \), then \( w\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) = 1 \) in all finitely-generated groups and therefore in all groups. Hence, \( \mathcal{E}\left( {\mathcal{L}\left( \math...
\( ▱ \)
No
Theorem 12.12 (Birkhoff) The following are equivalent for a class \( \mathcal{K} \) of groups:\n\n1) \( \mathcal{K} \) is an equational class\n\n2) \( \mathcal{K} \) is closed under subgroup, quotient and direct product\n\n3) \( \mathcal{K} \) is closed under quotient and subdirect product.
Proof. It is clear that 1) implies 2), which implies 3). To show that 3) implies 1), we show that \( \mathcal{E}\left( {\mathcal{L}\left( \mathcal{K}\right) }\right) \subseteq \mathcal{K} \) . Let \( G \in \mathcal{E}\left( {\mathcal{L}\left( \mathcal{K}\right) }\right) \), that is, \( G \) satisfies the laws of \( \ma...
Yes
Theorem 12.14 If \( X \) is a nonempty set, then the free abelian group \( {A}_{X} \) satisfies\n\n\[ \n{A}_{X} \approx \underset{x \in X}{ \boxplus }\langle x\rangle \approx \underset{x \in X}{ \boxplus }\mathbb{Z} \n\]
Proof. The function \( f : X \rightarrow \boxplus \langle x\rangle \) defined by\n\n\[ \nf\left( x\right) \left( y\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} x & \text{ if }y = x \\ 1 & \text{ if }y \neq x \end{array}\right.\n\]\n\nfor all \( y \in X \) can be lifted uniquely to a homomorphism \( \tau : {A}_{X} \rightarrow \bo...
Yes
Theorem 12.15 Let \( X \) be a nonempty subset of an abelian group \( A \) . The following are equivalent:\n\n1) A is a free abelian group with basis \( X \)\n\n2) \( X \) is independent in \( A \) and generates \( A \)\n\n3) Except for the order of the factors, every nonidentity element \( a \in A \) has a unique expr...
Proof. If 1) holds, we have seen that \( X \) generates \( A \) and if\n\n\[ w = {x}_{1}^{{e}_{1}}\cdots {x}_{n}^{{e}_{n}} = \epsilon \]\n\nfor \( {x}_{i} \neq {x}_{j} \), then \( {e}_{i} = 0 \) for all \( i \), since otherwise \( w \) would be a reduced word equivalent to the shorter word \( \epsilon \) . Hence,2) hol...
Yes
Theorem 12.17 Let \( {A}_{X} \) be free abelian on \( X \) . Then all independent sets have cardinality at most \( \left| X\right| \) .
Proof. It is sufficient to prove the result for \( A = { \boxplus }_{x \in X}{\mathbb{Z}}_{x} \) where \( {\mathbb{Z}}_{x} = \mathbb{Z} \) for all \( x \) . The set \( V = { \boxplus }_{x \in X}{\overline{\mathbb{Q}}}_{x} \) is a vector space over the rational field \( \mathbb{Q} \) and it is easy to see that a subset\...
Yes
Theorem 12.19 If \( \sigma : G \rightarrow {F}_{X} \) is an epimorphism, where \( {F}_{X} \) is free on \( X \), then \( K = \ker \left( \sigma \right) \) is complemented in \( G \) .
Proof. Define a function \( \tau : X \rightarrow G \) by letting \( {\tau x} \) be a fixed member of \( {\sigma }^{-1}\left( x\right) \) . Since \( {F}_{X} \) is free on \( X \), there is a unique homomorphism \( \tau : {F}_{X} \rightarrow G \) that extends \( \tau \) on \( X \) . Since for any \( x \in X \) ,\n\n\[ \s...
Yes
Theorem 12.20 Let \( X = \{ x, y\} \) and let \( {F}_{X} \) be the 2-generated free group on \( X \) . Let \( G = \langle S\rangle \), where\n\n\[ S = \left\{ {{y}^{k}x{y}^{-k} \mid k > 0}\right\} \]\n\nThen \( G \) is isomorphic to the free group \( {F}_{Z} \) on a countably infinite set \( Z = \left\{ {{z}_{1},{z}_{2...
Proof. Consider the function \( f : Z \rightarrow G \) defined by \( f\left( {z}_{k}\right) = {y}^{k}x{y}^{-k} \) . Then there is a unique mediating morphism \( \tau : {F}_{Z} \rightarrow G \) for which \( \tau \left( {z}_{k}\right) = {y}^{k}x{y}^{-k} \) . It is clear that \( \tau \) is surjective.\n\nIn addition, if\n...
Yes
Theorem 12.21 Let \( {F}_{X} \) be the free group on \( X = \{ x, y\} \) . Then \( {F}_{X} \) has a subgroup \( H \) for which \( {xH}{x}^{-1} < H \) .
Proof. Let \( H \) consist of the empty word \( \epsilon \) and the set of all words of the form\n\n\[ w = {x}^{{n}_{1}}{y}^{{k}_{1}}{x}^{{n}_{2}}{y}^{{k}_{2}}\cdots {x}^{{n}_{r}}{y}^{{k}_{r}}{x}^{{n}_{r + 1}} \]\n\nwith \( r \geq 1,{k}_{i} \neq 0,{n}_{1} \geq 0,{n}_{r + 1} \leq 0,{n}_{i} \neq 0 \) for \( 2 \leq i \leq...
No
Theorem 12.23 If \( G \approx \langle X \mid \mathcal{R}\rangle \), then \( G = \langle Y \mid \mathcal{S}\rangle \), where \( \left| Y\right| \leq \left| X\right| \) and \( \left| \mathcal{R}\right| \leq \left| \mathcal{S}\right| \) . In particular, \( G \) has a finite presentation if and only if it has a finite conc...
Proof. Let \( \mu : {F}_{X} \rightarrow G \) be a free presentation of \( G \) with kernel \( N = \langle \mathcal{R}{\rangle }_{\text{nor }} \) . Then the set \( Y = {\mu X} \) generates \( G \) . Let \( \sigma : {F}_{Y} \rightarrow G \) be the change of context map. If \( \mathcal{S} \) is the set of relators in \( Y...
Yes
Theorem 12.24 If \( G \) has a finite presentation and if \( X \) is a generating set for \( G \) , then \( G \) has a finite presentation of the form\n\n\[ \left\langle {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{n} \mid {r}_{1},\ldots ,{r}_{m}}\right\rangle \]\n\nwhere \( {x}_{i} \in X \) .
Proof. Let \( \langle Y \mid \mathcal{S}\rangle \) be a finite concrete presentation of \( G \), with\n\n\[ Y = \left\{ {{y}_{1},\ldots ,{y}_{u}}\right\} \;\text{ and }\;\mathcal{S} = \left\{ {{s}_{i}\left( {{y}_{1},\ldots ,{y}_{u}}\right) \mid i = 1,\ldots, v}\right\} \]\n\nThen there is a finite subset \( {X}_{0} = \...
Yes
Theorem 12.26 The word problem is solvable for the class of all finitely-presented residually finite groups.
Proof. Let \( G = \langle X \mid \mathcal{R}\rangle \) be a finite presentation of a residually finite group \( G \) and let \( w \in G \) . It is possible to enumerate all finite groups by constructing multiplication tables. Also, for a given finite group \( F \), there are only a finite number of group homomorphisms ...
Yes
Theorem 12.27 Suppose that a group with presentation \( \langle X \mid \mathcal{R}\rangle \) has order at most \( n < \infty \) . Then any group \( G \) of order \( n \) generated by \( X \) and satisfying the relations in \( \mathcal{R} \) has presentation \( \langle X \mid \mathcal{R}\rangle \) .
Proof. Let \( \sigma : {F}_{X} \rightarrow G \) be the change of context epimorphism. Since \( \langle \mathcal{R}{\rangle }_{\text{nor }} \leq \ker \left( \sigma \right) \), we have\n\n\[ n \geq \left( {{F}_{X} : \langle \mathcal{R}{\rangle }_{\text{nor }}}\right) \geq \left( {{F}_{X} : \ker \left( \sigma \right) }\ri...
Yes
Theorem 13.1 The torsion subgroup of an abelian group need not be complemented.
Proof. Let \( A = \boxtimes {\mathbb{Z}}_{p} \) be the external direct product of the abelian groups \( {\mathbb{Z}}_{p} \) , taken over all primes \( p \) . For \( a \in A \), we use the notation \( {a}_{p} \) in place of \( a\left( p\right) \) . The torsion subgroup \( {A}_{\text{tor }} \) is the subgroup of all elem...
Yes
Theorem 13.3 A finitely-generated abelian group \( A \) is torsion free if and only if it is free.
Proof. We leave proof that if \( A \) is free, then it is torsion free as an exercise. For the converse, let \( S = \left\{ {{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{n}}\right\} \) be a generating set for the torsion-free abelian group \( A \) . The proof is based on the fact that since \( A \) is torsion free, it is a torsion-free \( \ma...
No
Theorem 13.5 Let \( G \) be an abelian group. The following are equivalent:\n\n1) \( G \) is a free abelian group.\n\n2) \( G \) is projective.\n\n3) \( G \) has the right-inverse property, that is, any surjection \( \tau : A \rightarrow G \), where \( A \) is abelian, has a right inverse.\n\n4) If \( \sigma : A \right...
Proof. We have seen that 3) and 4) are equivalent. Assume that 1) holds and let \( G = {F}_{X} \) be free on \( X \) . Let \( \sigma : A \rightarrow B \) be surjective and let \( \tau : {F}_{X} \rightarrow B \) . Then for\neach \( x \in X \), there is an \( {a}_{x} \in A \) for which \( \sigma {a}_{x} = {\tau x} \) . D...
Yes
Theorem 5.1 (Cayley). Every group is isomorphic to a collection of permutations.
Proof. We have just seen that from the columns of any group's multiplication table, we can create a permutation for each element of the group, as Figure 5.31 exemplifies. We can also make a multiplication table out of those permutations. This proof explains why such a multiplication table must behave the same as the or...
Yes
Theorem 6.7. If \( H \) is a subgroup of \( G \), then each element of \( G \) belongs to exactly one left coset of \( H \) .
Proof. Suppose the element \( g \) of \( G \) appears to belong to two different left cosets, say \( {aH} \) and \( {bH} \) . In such a case, \( {aH} \) and \( {bH} \) must actually be two different names for the same coset (in the sense of Observation 6.5); here's why.\n\nSince \( g \) is in \( {aH} \), we can conclud...
Yes
Theorem 6.8 (Lagrange’s Theorem). If \( H < G \), then the order \( \left| H\right| \) of the subgroup divides the order \( \left| G\right| \) of the larger group.
Proof. Theorem 6.7 proved that the group \( G \) is partitioned into copies of \( H \) . So the size of \( G \) can be determined just by counting how many copies of \( H \) there are and multiplying that number by the size of each one, the number \( \left| H\right| \) . So if \( n \) is the number of left cosets (incl...
Yes
Theorem 7.6. If \( H < G \), then a quotient group \( \frac{G}{H} \) can be constructed just when \( H \vartriangleleft G \) .
Proof. The quotient process from Definition 7.5 succeeds just when the resulting diagram is a valid Cayley diagram. Most aspects of valid Cayley diagrams are guaranteed by the quotient process. For instance, because we begin with a diagram that has an arrow of every color exiting every node, our resulting diagram has t...
No
Theorem 8.5 (Fundamental Homomorphism Theorem). If \( \phi : G \rightarrow H \) is a homomorphism, then \( \operatorname{Im}\left( \phi \right) \cong \frac{G}{\operatorname{Ker}\left( \phi \right) } \) .
Proof. For any homomorphism \( \phi : G \rightarrow H \), we know from Observations 8.2 to 8.4 that \( \operatorname{Ker}\left( \phi \right) \vartriangleleft G \), so we know that we can take a quotient \( \frac{G}{\operatorname{Ker}\left( \phi \right) } \) and obtain a group. Now I must explain why that group is isomo...
Yes
Theorem 8.7. \( {C}_{n} \times {C}_{m} \cong {C}_{nm} \) if and only if \( n \) and \( m \) are relatively prime.
Proof. If \( {C}_{n} \times {C}_{m} \) is cyclic, it must be generated by one of its elements; let’s call it \( \left( {a, b}\right) \) because we do not know specifically which \( a \in {C}_{n} \) or \( b \in {C}_{m} \) it involves. Because the orbit of \( \left( {a, b}\right) \) includes every element in \( {C}_{n} \...
Yes
Theorem 9.4 (Orbit-Stabilizer Theorem). The size of an element's orbit times the size of its stabilizer is the size of the group.
Proof. Because Stab \( \left( s\right) \) is a subgroup of \( G \), the definition of subgroup index (Definition 6.9) tells us that\n\n\[ \underset{\text{size of subgroup }}{\underbrace{\left| \operatorname{Stab}\left( S\right) \right| }} \cdot \underset{\text{number of cosets }}{\underbrace{\left\lbrack G : \operatorn...
Yes
Theorem 9.5. If a group \( G \) of prime order \( p \) acts on a set \( S \), then the order of \( S \) and the number of stable elements in \( S \) are congruent mod \( p \) .
Proof. The Orbit-Stabilizer Theorem tells us that the size of each \( \operatorname{Orb}\left( s\right) \) is a factor of \( \left| G\right| \), so when \( \left| G\right| \) is a prime \( p \), all orbits have size 1 or \( p \) . The stable elements are in orbits of size 1 (each by itself) and the rest of \( S \) is p...
Yes
Theorem 9.6 (Cauchy’s Theorem). If \( p \) is a prime number that divides \( \left| G\right| \), then \( G \) has an element \( g \) of order \( p \), and therefore a subgroup \( \langle g\rangle \) of order \( p \) .
Proof. Because \( p \) is prime, if I find some \( g \neq e \) satisfying \( {g}^{p} = e \), then \( g \) must have order \( p \) . Exercise 9.15 asks you to explain why this is so, but for now I use the fact without justification.\n\nIn most groups there are lots of ways to multiply \( p \) group elements together and...
No
Theorem 9.8. If a p-group \( G \) acts on a set \( S \), then the order of \( S \) and the number of stable elements in \( S \) are congruent mod \( p \) .
Proof. As in the proof of Theorem 9.5, the size of each orbit must divide the order of \( G \) . In this case, only powers of \( p \) divide \( \left| G\right| \), so the orbits are therefore of various sizes including \( 1, p,{p}^{2},{p}^{3} \), up to at most \( {p}^{n} \) . So simply modify the illustration for Theor...
No
Theorem 9.9. If \( H \) is a p-subgroup of \( G \), then \( \left\lbrack {{N}_{G}\left( H\right) : H}\right\rbrack { \equiv }_{p}\left\lbrack {G : H}\right\rbrack \) .
Proof. Let \( S \) be the left cosets of \( H \) in \( G \) and consider the group \( H \) acting on \( S \) by the interpretation homomorphism \( \phi : G \rightarrow \operatorname{Perm}\left( S\right) \) defined by\n\n\[ \phi \left( h\right) = \text{the permutation that sends a coset}{gH}\text{to the coset}{hgH}\text...
No
Theorem 9.10 (First Sylow Theorem). If \( G \) is a group and \( {p}^{n} \) is the highest power of \( p \) dividing \( \left| G\right| \), then there are subgroups of \( G \) of every order \( 1, p,{p}^{2},{p}^{3} \), up to \( {p}^{n} \) . Also, every p-subgroup with fewer than \( {p}^{n} \) elements is inside one of ...
Proof. It is easy to find a \( p \) -subgroup of order 1 (which is \( {p}^{0} \) ) because it is obviously \( \{ e\} \) . We also know that there is a \( p \) -subgroup of order \( p \) (which is \( {p}^{1} \) ) from Cauchy’s Theorem (as long as \( \left| G\right| > 1 \) ). The main job of this proof is showing the exi...
Yes
Theorem 9.12 (Second Sylow Theorem). Any two Sylow p-subgroups are conjugates.
Proof. I use again the strategy described after the statement of Theorem 9.9. Let \( S \) be the left cosets of some Sylow \( p \) -subgroup \( H < G \) and have another Sylow \( p \) -subgroup \( K \) act on \( S \) by left multiplication (as in the proof of Theorem 9.9).\n\nA stable element of this action is a left c...
Yes
Theorem 9.13 (Third Sylow Theorem). The number \( n \) of Sylow p-subgroups of \( G \) obeys the following two restrictions.\nn divides \( \left| G\right| \)\n\[n{ \equiv }_{p}1\]
Proof. The first of the two restrictions is the easier to prove. Let \( H \) be one of the \( n \) Sylow \( p \) -subgroups of \( G \) . We know that the set of Sylow \( p \) -subgroups is the set of conjugates of \( H \) . Another way to say this is that if \( G \) acts on its subgroups by conjugation, then the set of...
Yes
Theorem 10.5. The degree of an extension \( \mathbb{Q}\left( r\right) \) always matches the degree of the irreducible polynomial to which \( r \) is a root.
For example, \( \mathbb{Q}\left( \sqrt{2}\right) \) is a degree-2 extension and \( \sqrt{2} \) is a root of the degree-2 irreducible polynomial \( {x}^{2} - 2 \) .
"No"
Theorem 10.7. Successive extensions multiply degrees.
\[ \left\lbrack {\mathbb{Q}\left( {a, b}\right) : \mathbb{Q}}\right\rbrack = \left\lbrack {\mathbb{Q}\left( {a, b}\right) : \mathbb{Q}\left( a\right) }\right\rbrack \left\lbrack {\mathbb{Q}\left( a\right) : \mathbb{Q}}\right\rbrack \] This theorem is best shown in a diagram like Figure 10.10. On the bottom is the field...
Yes
Theorem 10.8. Take any polynomial irreducible over \( \mathbb{Q} \) and any two of its roots, \( {r}_{1} \) and \( {r}_{2} \).
1. There is an isomorphism \( \phi : \mathbb{Q}\left( {r}_{1}\right) \rightarrow \mathbb{Q}\left( {r}_{2}\right) \) that replaces every \( {r}_{1} \) with \( {r}_{2} \), but fixes \( \mathbb{Q} \) . For example, in a degree-2 extension, \( \phi \) would look like this.\n\n\[ \phi \left( {a + b{r}_{1}}\right) = a + b{r}...
Yes
Theorem 10.9. The degree of a normal extension equals the order of its Galois group.
This theorem makes it easier to compute the Galois group of \( \mathbb{Q}\left( {{r}_{1},{r}_{2},{r}_{3}}\right) \) . Because there are three roots, the Galois group (which permutes those roots) must be isomorphic to some subgroup of \( {S}_{3} \) . Theorem 10.9 says that the order of the Galois group must match the de...
Yes
Proposition 2.1. If a binary operation \( \cdot : M \times M \rightarrow M \) is associative and if \( {e}^{\prime } \in M \) is a left identity and \( {e}^{\prime \prime } \in M \) is a right identity, which means that\n\n\[ \n{e}^{\prime } \cdot a = a\;\text{ for all }\;a \in M \n\]\n\n(G21)\n\nand\n\n\[ \na \cdot {e...
Proof. If we let \( a = {e}^{\prime \prime } \) in equation (G2l), we get\n\n\[ \n{e}^{\prime } \cdot {e}^{\prime \prime } = {e}^{\prime \prime } \n\]\n\nand if we let \( a = {e}^{\prime } \) in equation \( \left( \mathrm{{G2r}}\right) \), we get\n\n\[ \n{e}^{\prime } \cdot {e}^{\prime \prime } = {e}^{\prime } \n\]\n\n...
Yes
In a monoid \( M \) with identity element \( e \), if some element \( a \in M \) has some left inverse \( {a}^{\prime } \in M \) and some right inverse \( {a}^{\prime \prime } \in M \), which means that\n\n\[ \n{a}^{\prime } \cdot a = e \n\]\n\n(G31)\n\nand\n\n\[ \na \cdot {a}^{\prime \prime } = e, \n\]\n\n\( \left( {\...
Proof. Using (G3l) and the fact that \( e \) is an identity element, we have\n\n\[ \n\left( {{a}^{\prime } \cdot a}\right) \cdot {a}^{\prime \prime } = e \cdot {a}^{\prime \prime } = {a}^{\prime \prime }. \n\]\n\nSimilarly, Using (G3r) and the fact that \( e \) is an identity element, we have\n\n\[ \n{a}^{\prime } \cdo...
Yes
Proposition 2.3. Given a group \( G \), the translations \( {L}_{g} \) and \( {R}_{g} \) are bijections.
Proof. We show this for \( {L}_{g} \), the proof for \( {R}_{g} \) being similar.\n\nIf \( {L}_{g}\left( a\right) = {L}_{g}\left( b\right) \), then \( {ga} = {gb} \), and multiplying on the left by \( {g}^{-1} \), we get \( a = b \), so \( {L}_{g} \) injective. For any \( b \in G \), we have \( {L}_{g}\left( {{g}^{-1}b...
Yes
Proposition 2.5. Given a finite group \( G \), a subset \( H \subseteq G \) is a subgroup of \( G \) iff\n\n(1) \( e \in H \) ;\n\n(2) \( H \) is closed under multiplication.
Proof. We just have to prove that Condition (3) of Definition 2.4 holds. For any \( a \in H \) , since the left translation \( {L}_{a} \) is bijective, its restriction to \( H \) is injective, and since \( H \) is finite, it is also bijective. Since \( e \in H \), there is a unique \( b \in H \) such that \( {L}_{a}\le...
Yes
Proposition 2.6. Given a group \( G \) and any subgroup \( H \) of \( G \), we have \( {g}_{1}H = {g}_{2}H \) iff \( {g}_{2}^{-1}{g}_{1}H = H \) iff \( {g}_{2}^{-1}{g}_{1} \in H \), for all \( {g}_{1},{g}_{2} \in G \) .
Proof. If we apply the bijection \( {L}_{{g}_{2}^{-1}} \) to both \( {g}_{1}H \) and \( {g}_{2}H \) we get \( {L}_{{g}_{2}^{-1}}\left( {{g}_{1}H}\right) = {g}_{2}^{-1}{g}_{1}H \) and \( {L}_{{g}_{2}^{-1}}\left( {{g}_{2}H}\right) = H \), so \( {g}_{1}H = {g}_{2}H \) iff \( {g}_{2}^{-1}{g}_{1}H = H \) . If \( {g}_{2}^{-1...
Yes
Proposition 2.7. (Lagrange) For any finite group \( G \) and any subgroup \( H \) of \( G \), the order \( h \) of \( H \) divides the order \( n \) of \( G \) .
\[ \left| G\right| = \left( {G : H}\right) \left| H\right| \]
No
Proposition 2.8. If \( \varphi : G \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) is a homomorphism of groups, then \( \varphi : G \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) is injective iff \( \operatorname{Ker}\varphi = \{ e\} \) . (We also write \( \operatorname{Ker}\varphi = \left( 0\right) \) .)
Proof. Assume \( \varphi \) is injective. Since \( \varphi \left( e\right) = {e}^{\prime } \), if \( \varphi \left( g\right) = {e}^{\prime } \), then \( \varphi \left( g\right) = \varphi \left( e\right) \), and by injectivity of \( \varphi \) we must have \( g = e \), so \( \operatorname{Ker}\varphi = \{ e\} \) .\n\nCo...
Yes
Proposition 2.10. Let \( \varphi : G \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) be a group homomorphism. Then \( H = \operatorname{Ker}\varphi \) satisfies Property \( \left( {* * }\right) \), and thus Property \( \left( *\right) \) .
Proof. We have\n\n\[ \varphi \left( {{gh}{g}^{-1}}\right) = \varphi \left( g\right) \varphi \left( h\right) \varphi \left( {g}^{-1}\right) = \varphi \left( g\right) {e}^{\prime }\varphi {\left( g\right) }^{-1} = \varphi \left( g\right) \varphi {\left( g\right) }^{-1} = {e}^{\prime }, \]\n\nfor all \( h \in H = \operato...
Yes
Given a homomorphism of groups \( \varphi : G \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \), the groups \( G/\operatorname{Ker}\varphi \) and \( \operatorname{Im}\varphi = \varphi \left( G\right) \) are isomorphic.
Since \( \varphi \) is surjective onto its image, we may assume that \( \varphi \) is surjective, so that \( {G}^{\prime } = \operatorname{Im}\varphi \) . We define a map \( \bar{\varphi } : G/\operatorname{Ker}\varphi \rightarrow {G}^{\prime } \) as follows:\n\n\[ \bar{\varphi }\left( \bar{g}\right) = \varphi \left( g...
Yes
Given an abelian group \( G \), if \( {H}_{1} \) and \( {H}_{2} \) are any subgroups of \( G \) such that \( {H}_{1} \cap {H}_{2} = \{ 0\} \), then the map a is an isomorphism
The map is surjective by definition, so we just have to check that it is injective. For this, we show that \( \operatorname{Ker}a = \{ \left( {0,0}\right) \} \) . We have \( a\left( {{a}_{1},{a}_{2}}\right) = 0 \) iff \( {a}_{1} + {a}_{2} = 0 \) iff \( {a}_{1} = - {a}_{2} \) . Since \( {a}_{1} \in {H}_{1} \) and \( {a}...
Yes
Proposition 2.14. Every subgroup \( H \) of \( \mathbb{Z} \) is of the form \( H = n\mathbb{Z} \) for some \( n \in \mathbb{N} \) .
Proof. If \( H \) is the trivial group \( \{ 0\} \), then let \( n = 0 \) . If \( H \) is nontrivial, for any nonzero element \( m \in H \), we also have \( - m \in H \) and either \( m \) or \( - m \) is positive, so let \( n \) be the smallest positive integer in \( H \) . By Proposition 2.13, \( n\mathbb{Z} \) is th...
Yes
Proposition 2.16. Given any integer \( n \geq 1 \), for any \( a \in \mathbb{Z} \), the residue class \( \bar{a} \in \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} \) is invertible with respect to multiplication iff \( \gcd \left( {a, n}\right) = 1 \) .
Proof. If \( \bar{a} \) has inverse \( \bar{b} \) in \( \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} \), then \( \bar{a}\bar{b} = 1 \), which means that\n\n\[ \n{ab} \equiv 1\;\left( {\;\operatorname{mod}\;n}\right) \n\]\n\nthat is \( {ab} = 1 + {nk} \) for some \( k \in \mathbb{Z} \), which is the Bezout identity\n\n\[ \n{ab} - {nk} = 1 \n...
Yes
Proposition 3.1. For any \( u \in E \) and any \( \lambda \in K \), if \( \lambda \neq 0 \) and \( \lambda \cdot u = 0 \), then \( u = 0 \) .
Proof. Indeed, since \( \lambda \neq 0 \), it has a multiplicative inverse \( {\lambda }^{-1} \), so from \( \lambda \cdot u = 0 \), we get\n\n\[ \n{\lambda }^{-1} \cdot \left( {\lambda \cdot u}\right) = {\lambda }^{-1} \cdot 0.\n\]\n\nHowever, we just observed that \( {\lambda }^{-1} \cdot 0 = 0 \), and from (V3) and ...
Yes
Proposition 3.5. Given any vector space \( E \), if \( S \) is any nonempty subset of \( E \), then the smallest subspace \( \langle S\rangle \) (or \( \operatorname{Span}\left( S\right) \) ) of \( E \) containing \( S \) is the set of all (finite) linear combinations of elements from \( S \) .
Proof. We prove that the set \( \operatorname{Span}\left( S\right) \) of all linear combinations of elements of \( S \) is a subspace of \( E \), leaving as an exercise the verification that every subspace containing \( S \) also contains \( \operatorname{Span}\left( S\right) \) .\n\nFirst, Span \( \left( S\right) \) i...
No
Lemma 3.6. Given a linearly independent family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) of elements of a vector space \( E \), if \( v \in E \) is not a linear combination of \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \), then the family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I}{ \cup }_{k}\left( v\right) \) obtained by adding ...
Proof. Assume that \( {\mu v} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i \in I}}{\lambda }_{i}{u}_{i} = 0 \), for any family \( {\left( {\lambda }_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) of scalars in \( K \) . If \( \mu \neq 0 \), then \( \mu \) has an inverse (because \( K \) is a field), and thus we have \( v = - \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i \in I...
Yes
Theorem 3.7. Given any finite family \( S = {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) generating a vector space \( E \) and any linearly independent subfamily \( L = {\left( {u}_{j}\right) }_{j \in J} \) of \( S \) (where \( J \subseteq I \) ), there is a basis \( B \) of \( E \) such that \( L \subseteq B \subseteq S \) .
Proof. Consider the set of linearly independent families \( B \) such that \( L \subseteq B \subseteq S \) . Since this set is nonempty and finite, it has some maximal element (that is, a subfamily \( B = {\left( {u}_{h}\right) }_{h \in H} \) of \( S \) with \( H \subseteq I \) of maximum cardinality), say \( B = {\lef...
Yes
Proposition 3.8. Given a vector space \( E \), for any family \( B = {\left( {v}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) of vectors of \( E \), the following properties are equivalent:\n\n(1) \( B \) is a basis of \( E \) .\n\n(2) \( B \) is a maximal linearly independent family of \( E \) .\n\n(3) \( B \) is a minimal generating fa...
Proof. We will first prove the equivalence of (1) and (2). Assume (1). Since \( B \) is a basis, it is a linearly independent family. We claim that \( B \) is a maximal linearly independent family. If \( B \) is not a maximal linearly independent family, then there is some vector \( w \in E \) such that the family \( {...
Yes
Theorem 3.11. Let \( E \) be a finitely generated vector space. Any family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) generating \( E \) contains a subfamily \( {\left( {u}_{j}\right) }_{j \in J} \) which is a basis of \( E \) . Any linearly independent family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) can be extended to a...
Proof. The first part follows immediately by applying Theorem 3.7 with \( L = \varnothing \) and \( S = \) \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) . For the second part, consider the family \( {S}^{\prime } = {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \cup {\left( {v}_{h}\right) }_{h \in H} \), where \( {\left( {v}_{h}\right)...
Yes
The map \( f : {\mathbb{R}}^{2} \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{2} \) defined such that\n\n\[ \n{x}^{\prime } = x - y \n\]\n\n\[ \n{y}^{\prime } = x + y \n\]\n\nis a linear map.
The reader should check that it is the composition of a rotation by \( \pi /4 \) with a magnification of ratio \( \sqrt{2} \) .
No
Given a linear map \( f : E \rightarrow F \), the set \( \operatorname{Im}f \) is a subspace of \( F \) and the set \( \operatorname{Ker}f \) is a subspace of \( E \). The linear map \( f : E \rightarrow F \) is injective iff \( \operatorname{Ker}f = \left( 0\right) \) (where \( \left( 0\right) \) is the trivial subspa...
Proof. Given any \( x, y \in \operatorname{Im}f \), there are some \( u, v \in E \) such that \( x = f\left( u\right) \) and \( y = f\left( v\right) \) , and for all \( \lambda ,\mu \in K \), we have\n\n\[ f\left( {{\lambda u} + {\mu v}}\right) = {\lambda f}\left( u\right) + {\mu f}\left( v\right) = {\lambda x} + {\mu ...
Yes
Proposition 3.15. Given any two vector spaces \( E \) and \( F \), given any basis \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) of \( E \) , given any other family of vectors \( {\left( {v}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) in \( F \), there is a unique linear map \( f : E \rightarrow F \) such that \( f\left( {u}_{i}\right) = {v}...
Proof. If such a linear map \( f : E \rightarrow F \) exists, since \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) is a basis of \( E \), every vector \( x \in E \) can written uniquely as a linear combination\n\n\[ x = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i \in I}}{x}_{i}{u}_{i} \]\n\nand by linearity, we must have\n\n\[ f\left( x\right...
Yes
Proposition 3.16. Given any set \( I \), for any vector space \( F \), and for any function \( f : I \rightarrow F \) , there is a unique linear map \( \bar{f} : {K}^{\left( I\right) } \rightarrow F \), such that\n\n\[ f = \bar{f} \circ \iota \]
Proof. If such a linear map \( \bar{f} : {K}^{\left( I\right) } \rightarrow F \) exists, since \( f = \bar{f} \circ \iota \), we must have\n\n\[ f\left( i\right) = \bar{f}\left( {\iota \left( i\right) }\right) = \bar{f}\left( {e}_{i}\right) \]\n\nfor every \( i \in I \) . However, the family \( {\left( {e}_{i}\right) }...
Yes
Proposition 3.17. Given any two vector spaces \( E \) and \( F \), with \( F \) nontrivial, given any family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) of vectors in \( E \), the following properties hold:\n\n(1) The family \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) generates \( E \) iff for every family of vectors \( {\le...
Proof. (1) If there is any linear map \( f : E \rightarrow F \) such that \( f\left( {u}_{i}\right) = {v}_{i} \) for all \( i \in I \), since \( {\left( {u}_{i}\right) }_{i \in I} \) generates \( E \), every vector \( x \in E \) can be written as some linear combination\n\n\[ x = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i \in I}}{x}_{i...
Yes
Proposition 3.18. Let \( E \) be a vector space of finite dimension \( n \geq 1 \) and let \( f : E \rightarrow E \) be any linear map. The following properties hold:\n\n(1) If \( f \) has a left inverse \( g \), that is, if \( g \) is a linear map such that \( g \circ f = \mathrm{{id}} \), then \( f \) is an isomorphi...
Proof. (1) The equation \( g \circ f = \) id implies that \( f \) is injective; this is a standard result about functions (if \( f\left( x\right) = f\left( y\right) \), then \( g\left( {f\left( x\right) }\right) = g\left( {f\left( y\right) }\right) \), which implies that \( x = y \) since \( g \circ f = \mathrm{{id}} \...
Yes
Proposition 3.19. Given any vector space \( E \) and any subspace \( M \) of \( E \), the relation \( { \equiv }_{M} \) is an equivalence relation with the following two congruential properties:\n\n1. If \( {u}_{1}{ \equiv }_{M}{v}_{1} \) and \( {u}_{2}{ \equiv }_{M}{v}_{2} \), then \( {u}_{1} + {u}_{2}{ \equiv }_{M}{v...
Proof. It is obvious that \( { \equiv }_{M} \) is an equivalence relation. Note that \( {u}_{1}{ \equiv }_{M}{v}_{1} \) and \( {u}_{2}{ \equiv }_{M}{v}_{2} \) are equivalent to \( {u}_{1} - {v}_{1} = {w}_{1} \) and \( {u}_{2} - {v}_{2} = {w}_{2} \), with \( {w}_{1},{w}_{2} \in M \), and thus,\n\n\[ \n\\left( {{u}_{1} +...
Yes
Given any differentiable function \( f : {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \), by definition, for any \( x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) , the total derivative \( d{f}_{x} \) of \( f \) at \( x \) is the linear form \( d{f}_{x} : {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) defined so that for all \( u = \left( {{u}_{1},...
\[ d{f}_{x}\left( u\right) = \left( \begin{array}{lll} \frac{\partial f}{\partial {x}_{1}}\left( x\right) & \cdots & \frac{\partial f}{\partial {x}_{n}}\left( x\right) \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{matrix} {u}_{1} \\ \vdots \\ {u}_{n} \end{matrix}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}\frac{\partial f}{\partia...
Yes
Theorem 3.20. (Existence of dual bases) Let \( E \) be a vector space of dimension \( n \) . The following properties hold: For every basis \( \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right) \) of \( E \), the family of coordinate forms \( \left( {{u}_{1}^{ * },\ldots ,{u}_{n}^{ * }}\right) \) is a basis of \( {E}^{ * } \) (ca...
Proof. (a) If \( {v}^{ * } \in {E}^{ * } \) is any linear form, consider the linear form\n\n\[ \n{f}^{ * } = {v}^{ * }\left( {u}_{1}\right) {u}_{1}^{ * } + \cdots + {v}^{ * }\left( {u}_{n}\right) {u}_{n}^{ * }.\n\]\n\nObserve that because \( {u}_{i}^{ * }\left( {u}_{j}\right) = {\delta }_{ij} \),\n\n\[ \n{f}^{ * }\left...
Yes
Problem 3.9. Consider the following Haar matrix\n\n\[ \nH = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 1 & - 1 & 0 \\ 1 & - 1 & 0 & 1 \\ 1 & - 1 & 0 & - 1 \end{matrix}\right) \n\]\n\nProve that the columns of \( H \) are linearly independent.
Hint. Compute the product \( {H}^{\top }H \) .
No
Problem 3.10. Consider the following Hadamard matrix\n\n\[ \n{H}_{4} = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 1 & - 1 & 1 & - 1 \\ 1 & 1 & - 1 & - 1 \\ 1 & - 1 & - 1 & 1 \end{matrix}\right) \]\n\nProve that the columns of \( {H}_{4} \) are linearly independent.
Hint. Compute the product \( {H}_{4}^{\top }{H}_{4} \) .
No
Given any matrices \( A \in {\mathrm{M}}_{m, n}\left( K\right), B \in {\mathrm{M}}_{n, p}\left( K\right) \), and \( C \in {\mathrm{M}}_{p, q}\left( K\right) \), we have\n\n\[ \left( {AB}\right) C = A\left( {BC}\right) \]\n\nthat is, matrix multiplication is associative.
Proof. (1) Every \( m \times n \) matrix \( A = \left( {a}_{ij}\right) \) defines the function \( {f}_{A} : {K}^{n} \rightarrow {K}^{m} \) given by\n\n\[ {f}_{A}\left( x\right) = {Ax} \]\n\nfor all \( x \in {K}^{n} \). It is immediately verified that \( {f}_{A} \) is linear and that the matrix \( M\left( {f}_{A}\right)...
Yes
Proposition 4.2. Given three vector spaces \( E, F, G \), with respective bases \( \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{p}}\right) \) , \( \left( {{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{n}}\right) \), and \( \left( {{w}_{1},\ldots ,{w}_{m}}\right) \), the mapping \( M : \operatorname{Hom}\left( {E, F}\right) \rightarrow {\mathrm{M}}_{n, p} \) t...
Proof. That \( M\left( {g\left( x\right) }\right) = M\left( g\right) M\left( x\right) \) was shown by Definition 4.2 or equivalently by Formula (1). The identities \( M\left( {g + h}\right) = M\left( g\right) + M\left( h\right) \) and \( M\left( {\lambda g}\right) = {\lambda M}\left( g\right) \) are straightforward, an...
Yes
Proposition 4.3. Let \( E \) be a vector space, and let \( \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right) \) be a basis of \( E \) . For every family \( \left( {{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{n}}\right) \), let \( P = \left( {a}_{ij}\right) \) be the matrix defined such that \( {v}_{j} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{n}{a}_{ij}{u}_{...
Proof. Note that we have \( P = M\left( f\right) \), the matrix associated with the unique linear map \( f : E \rightarrow E \) such that \( f\left( {u}_{i}\right) = {v}_{i} \) . By Proposition 3.15, \( f \) is bijective iff \( \left( {{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{n}}\right) \) is a basis of \( E \) . Furthermore, it is obviou...
Yes
Let \( E = F = {\mathbb{R}}^{2} \), with \( {u}_{1} = \left( {1,0}\right) ,{u}_{2} = \left( {0,1}\right) ,{v}_{1} = \left( {1,1}\right) \) and \( {v}_{2} = \left( {-1,1}\right) \) . The change of basis matrix \( P \) from the basis \( \mathcal{U} = \left( {{u}_{1},{u}_{2}}\right) \) to the basis \( \mathcal{V} = \left(...
\[ P = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & - 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{matrix}\right) \] and its inverse is \[ {P}^{-1} = \left( \begin{matrix} 1/2 & 1/2 \\ - 1/2 & 1/2 \end{matrix}\right) \] The old coordinates \( \left( {{x}_{1},{x}_{2}}\right) \) with respect to \( \left( {{u}_{1},{u}_{2}}\right) \) are expressed in terms of the new co...
Yes
Example 4.2. Let \( E = F = \mathbb{R}{\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack }_{3} \) be the set of polynomials of degree at most 3, and consider the bases \( \mathcal{U} = \left( {1, x,{x}^{2},{x}^{3}}\right) \) and \( \mathcal{V} = \left( {{B}_{0}^{3}\left( x\right) ,{B}_{1}^{3}\left( x\right) ,{B}_{2}^{3}\left( x\right) ,{B}_...
By expanding the Bernstein polynomials, we find that the change of basis matrix \( {P}_{\mathcal{V},\mathcal{U}} \) is given by\n\n\[ \n{P}_{\mathcal{V},\mathcal{U}} = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ - 3 & 3 & 0 & 0 \\ 3 & - 6 & 3 & 0 \\ - 1 & 3 & - 3 & 1 \end{matrix}\right) \n\]\n\nWe also find that the inverse...
Yes
Proposition 4.4. Let \( E \) and \( F \) be vector spaces, let \( \mathcal{U} = \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right) \) and \( {\mathcal{U}}^{\prime } = \left( {{u}_{1}^{\prime },\ldots ,{u}_{n}^{\prime }}\right) \) be two bases of \( E \), and let \( \mathcal{V} = \left( {{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{m}}\right) \) and \( {...
Proof. Since \( f : E \rightarrow F \) can be written as \( f = {\operatorname{id}}_{F} \circ f \circ {\operatorname{id}}_{E} \), since \( P \) is the matrix of \( {\operatorname{id}}_{E} \) w.r.t. the bases \( \left( {{u}_{1}^{\prime },\ldots ,{u}_{n}^{\prime }}\right) \) and \( \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right)...
Yes
Corollary 4.5. Let \( E \) be a vector space, and let \( \mathcal{U} = \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right) \) and \( {\mathcal{U}}^{\prime } = \left( {{u}_{1}^{\prime },\ldots ,{u}_{n}^{\prime }}\right) \) be two bases of \( E \) . Let \( P = {P}_{{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime },\mathcal{U}} \) be the change of basis matri...
or more explicitly, \[ {M}_{{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime }}\left( f\right) = {P}_{{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime },\mathcal{U}}^{-1}{M}_{\mathcal{U}}\left( f\right) {P}_{{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime },\mathcal{U}} = {P}_{\mathcal{U},{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime }}{M}_{\mathcal{U}}\left( f\right) {P}_{{\mathcal{U}}^{\prime },\mathcal{U}}. \]
Yes
Example 4.3. Let \( E = {\mathbb{R}}^{2},\mathcal{U} = \left( {{e}_{1},{e}_{2}}\right) \) where \( {e}_{1} = \left( {1,0}\right) \) and \( {e}_{2} = \left( {0,1}\right) \) are the canonical basis vectors, let \( \mathcal{V} = \left( {{v}_{1},{v}_{2}}\right) = \left( {{e}_{1},{e}_{1} - {e}_{2}}\right) \), and let\n\n\[ ...
Therefore, in the basis \( \mathcal{V} \), the matrix representing the linear map \( f \) defined by \( A \) is\n\n\[ {A}^{\prime } = {P}^{-1}{AP} = {PAP} = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & - 1 \end{matrix}\right) \left( \begin{array}{ll} 2 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & - 1 \end{m...
Yes
Show that the Bernstein polynomials \( {B}_{0}^{2}\left( t\right) ,{B}_{1}^{2}\left( t\right) ,{B}_{2}^{2}\left( t\right) \) are expressed as linear combinations of the basis \( \left( {1, t,{t}^{2}}\right) \) of the vector space of polynomials of degree at most 2 as follows:\n\[ \left( \begin{array}{l} {B}_{0}^{2}\lef...
Prove that\n\[ {B}_{0}^{2}\left( t\right) + {B}_{1}^{2}\left( t\right) + {B}_{2}^{2}\left( t\right) = 1. \]
No