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    1. This document provides 11 practice problems related to concepts in modern algebra, including determining subgroups of various groups, properties of group elements and orders, and properties related to commuting elements in a group. 2. Questions involve topics like finite subgroups, proper subsets that are groups, showing a set with a binary operation is a group, properties related to even order groups, properties of non-abelian groups, products of group elements, subgroups of finite order in abelian groups, inverses, cancellation laws, and orders of elements and their products. 3. The problems cover a range of foundational concepts in abstract algebra including groups, subgroups, orders, inverses, cancellation properties, and properties of commuting elements.

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    1. This document provides 11 practice problems related to concepts in modern algebra, including determining subgroups of various groups, properties of group elements and orders, and properties related to commuting elements in a group. 2. Questions involve topics like finite subgroups, proper subsets that are groups, showing a set with a binary operation is a group, properties related to even order groups, properties of non-abelian groups, products of group elements, subgroups of finite order in abelian groups, inverses, cancellation laws, and orders of elements and their products. 3. The problems cover a range of foundational concepts in abstract algebra including groups, subgroups, orders, inverses, cancellation properties, and properties of commuting elements.

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    Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

    MA 521: Modern Algebra


    Tutorial Sheet- I
    July-November 2023

    1. Determine all the finite subgroups of the following groups.


    (a) Z, Q, R, C under addition.
    (b) Q× , R× , C× under multiplication.
    2. Let p and q be distinct primes. Suppose that H is a proper subset of the integers and H is
    a group under addition that contains exactly three elements of the set {p, p + q, pq, pq , q p }.
    Determine which of the following are the three elements in H.
    (a) pq, pq , q p (b) p + q, pq, pq (c) p, p + q, pq (d) p, pq , q p (e) p, pq, pq .
    3. Show that G = R \ {−1} is a group under the binary operation defined by a ∗ b := a + b + ab
    for a, b ∈ G.
    4. Let G be a finite group. Show that the number of elements x in G with x2 6= 1 is even.
    Conclude that if G is a finite group of even order, then G has an element of order 2.
    5. Let a and b be two noncommuting elements of a group G. Show that the elements 1, a, b, ab, ba
    in G are all distinct. Conclude that a non-abelian group is of order at least 6.
    6. Let A be a subset of a finite group G and |A| > |G|/2. Prove that each element of G is a
    product of two elements of A.
    7. (a) Show that the elements of finite order in an abelian group G form a subgroup of G.
    (b) Show by an example that the corresponding statement for non-abelian groups is false.
    8. Let (G, ∗) be a group.
    (a) (x−1 )−1 = x for every x ∈ G.
    (b) (x ∗ y)−1 = y −1 ∗ x−1 .
    9. Let (G, ∗) be a group and a, b ∈ G. The equations a ∗ x = b and y ∗ a = b have unique
    solutions for x, y ∈ G. In particular, the left and right cancelation laws hold in G, that is,
    (a) if a ∗ u = a ∗ v, then u = v, and
    (b) u ∗ b = v ∗ b, then u = v.
    10. Let x and y be elements of a group G. Let e be the identity element of G.
    (a) If xn = e for some non-zero integer n, then o(x)|n.
    (b) We have o(x) = o(x−1 ), o(yxy −1 ) = o(x), and o(xy) = o(yx).
    (c) If o(x) is infinite, then o(xk ) is also infinite for any non-zero integer k.
    o(x)
    (d) If o(x) is finite, then o(xk ) = for k > 0.
    gcd(k, o(x))
    11. Let G be a group and let x and y be elements of G of finite order such that xy = yx. Let
    ` = lcm(o(x), o(y)).
    (a) Show that o(xy) divides `.
    (b) Give an example of commuting elements x and y such that the order of xy is not equal
    to `.
    (c) If hxi ∩ hyi = {e}, show that o(xy) = lcm(o(x), o(y)).
    Deduce that, if gcd(o(x), o(y)) = 1 then o(xy) = `.
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