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ABSTRACT ALGEBRA-I

Course Code: MM24101CR Total Credits: 04


Semester: MA/M.Sc. 1st Semester Total Marks: 100
Continuous Assessment: Marks 20, Theory: Marks 80 Time Duration: 2½ hrs
Course Objectives: To enable the student to understand group structures, symmetries and
various results and properties associated with algebraic structures.
Course Outcomes: After the completion of this course, the students shall be able to
understand group/ring structures, define and comprehend various algebraic structures, such
as groups, rings, and fields, including their axioms and properties.
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UNIT-I
Criterion for a semi-group to be a group, Cyclic groups, Generators of finite/infinite cyclic
groups, Structure theorem for cyclic groups, endomorphism, automorphism, Inner
automorphism and outer automorphism, Cauchy’s and Sylow’s theorem for abelian groups,
Groups of symmetries, alternating groups, simple groups, groups of order six, simplicity of
the alternating group An.

UNIT-II
Conjugate classes, class equation of finite groups (𝑝, 2𝑝, 𝑝! , 𝑝 ! ) and its applications,
Cauchy’s and Sylow’s theorems for finite groups, direct product of groups, finite abelian
groups, normal and subnormal series, composition series, Jordan Holder theorem for finite
groups, Zassenhaus lemma, Schreir’s refinement theorem, Solvable groups, examples and
theorems.

UNIT-III
Brief review of rings. Field of quotients of an integral domain, embedding of an Integral
domain, Euclidean rings with examples such as ℤ!√−1!, ℤ[√2], Principal Ideal Rings
(PIR), unique factorization domains (UFD) and Euclidean domains (ED), GCD and LCM
in rings, factorization theorem, relationships between Euclidean rings, P.I.R.’s and U.F.D.

UNIT-IV
Polynomial rings, the division algorithm for polynomials, irreducible polynomials,
polynomials and the rational field, primitive polynomials, contraction of polynomials,
Gauss lemma, Integer monic polynomial, Eisenstein’s irreducibility criterion,
cyclotomic polynomials, polynomial rings and commutative rings.

Recommended Books
1. J. A. Gallian, Contemporary Abstract Algebra, Cengage Learning, USA, 9th
Edition, 2015
2. I. N. Heristein, Topics in Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 1975.
3. P. B. Bhatacharaya and S.K.Jain, Basic Abstract Algebra, Cambridge University
Press, 4th Edition, Reprint 2009.
4. J. B. Fragleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Pearson New International,
2014.
5. K. S. Miller, Elements of Modern Abstract Algebra, Krieger Publishing, 1975.
6. Surjeet Singh and Qazi Zameer-ud-Din, Modern Algebra, Vikas Pub Hou. Pvt Ltd,
8th Edition, 2006

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