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Class Equation of Dihedral Group D4

This document provides instructions and problems for Problem Set 2 on the topics of p-groups, fields, and vector spaces. Students are instructed to write their own solutions on paper and hand them in by the due date. Their solutions will be graded based on effort rather than correctness. The document then lists 19 problems covering topics like determining class equations for various groups, proving statements about subgroups, classifying groups of a certain order, finding Sylow subgroups, and solving systems of linear equations over finite fields.

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Class Equation of Dihedral Group D4

This document provides instructions and problems for Problem Set 2 on the topics of p-groups, fields, and vector spaces. Students are instructed to write their own solutions on paper and hand them in by the due date. Their solutions will be graded based on effort rather than correctness. The document then lists 19 problems covering topics like determining class equations for various groups, proving statements about subgroups, classifying groups of a certain order, finding Sylow subgroups, and solving systems of linear equations over finite fields.

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Problem Set 2: p-Group, Field and Vector Space

Due Date: October 23 in class.


Name:
Date:

Instructions
Write down your solutions on A4 papers and hand them in by the due date.
You may discuss with your classmates about the strategy to solve the problems,
but each of you should come up with a full solution on your own. Your solutions
will be graded based on efforts, as opposed to the correctness.

Problems
1. Rule out as many of the following as possible as Class Equations for a
group of order 10: 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 5, 1 + 2 + 2 + 5, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4,
1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2.

2. Determine the class equation for the dihedral groups D5 and D6 .


3. List all subgroups of the dihedral group D4 , and divide them into conju-
gacy classes.
4. Prove or disprove: A5 is the only proper normal subgroup of S5 .

5. Let H be a subgroup of a group G. Prove or disprove: The normalizer


N (H) is a normal subgroup of the group G.
6. Let H be a normal subgroup of prime order p in a finite group G. Suppose
that p is the smallest prime dividing |G|. Prove that H is in the center
Z(G).

7. Let K be a normal subgroup of order 2 of a group G, and let Ḡ = G/K.


Let C̄ be a conjugacy class in Ḡ. Let S be the inverse image of C̄ in G.
Prove that one of the following two cases occurs.
(a) S = C is a single conjugacy class and |C| = 2|C̄|.
(b) S = C1 ∪C2 is made up of two conjugacy classes and |C1 | = |C2 | = |C|.

8. How many elements of order 5 are contained in a group of order 20?


9. Prove that no group of order pq, where p and q are prime, is simple.
10. Let G be a group of order pe m. Prove that G contains a subgroup of order
pr for every integer r ≤ e.

11. Prove that if G has order n = pe a where 1 ≤ a < p and e ≥ 1, then G has
a proper normal subgroup.
12. Classify groups of order 33.

1
13. Determine the Class Equation and list the conjugacy classes for A4 .
14. Prove that the symmetric group Sn is generated by the cycles (1 2 · · · n)
and (1 2).
√
15. Prove that the set of numbers of the form a + b 2, where a, b are rational
numbers, is a field.
16. 
Solve completely the systems of linear equations AX = B, where A =
1 1 0
 1 0 1  in the following two cases:
1 −1 −1
 
1
1) B =  −1  and the equation holds in F7 .
1
 
0
2) B =  0  and the equation holds in F3 .
0

17. Find a Sylow p-subgroup of GL2 (Fp ).


18. Compute the order of SL2 (Fp ).
19. Let F be a field which is not of characteristic 2, and let x2 + bx + c = 0 be
a quadratic equation with coefficients in F . Assume that the discriminant
b2 − 4c is a square in F , that is, that there is an element δ ∈ F such that
δ 2 = b2 − 4c. Prove that the quadratic formula x = (−b + δ)/2a solves the
quadratic equation in F , and that if the discriminant is not a square the
polynomial has no root in F .

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