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MATH 3GR3 Assignment #3 Due: Wednesday, 3 November, by 11:59pm

This document outlines 8 problems for a MATH 3GR3 assignment. The problems involve finding elements that commute with a dihedral group D4, describing left and right cosets of subgroups in various groups, showing that certain sets are subgroups, and performing calculations using SageMath involving cyclic and alternating groups. Supplementary practice problems are also listed from the textbook chapters.

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MATH 3GR3 Assignment #3 Due: Wednesday, 3 November, by 11:59pm

This document outlines 8 problems for a MATH 3GR3 assignment. The problems involve finding elements that commute with a dihedral group D4, describing left and right cosets of subgroups in various groups, showing that certain sets are subgroups, and performing calculations using SageMath involving cyclic and alternating groups. Supplementary practice problems are also listed from the textbook chapters.

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MATH 3GR3 Assignment #3

Due: Wednesday, 3 November, by 11:59pm


1. Consider the dihedral group D4 . Find all elements g ∈ D4 that com-
mute with every element of D4 , i.e., such that ga = ag for all a ∈ D4 .

2. For each pair of group G and subgroup H, describe/list the left and
right cosets of H in G and find [G : H]:

(a) G = Z, H = 3Z.
(b) G = A4 , H = {(1), (12)(34), (13)(24), (14)(23)}.
(c) G = Z15 , H = h11i.

3. Recall that GL2 (R) is the group of all 2 × 2 invertible matrices with
real entries. Let
  
a b
• G= ∈ GL2 (R) : ac 6= 0
0 c
  
1 x
• H= : x∈R
0 1

(a) Show that G is a subgroup of GL2 (R) and that H is a subgroup


of G.
(b) Show that every left coset of H in the group G is equal to a right
coset of H in G.
   
a b u v
(c) Show that for , ∈ G, the two left cosets
  0 c  0 w
a b u v
H and H are equal if and only if a = u and
0 c 0 w
c = w.
(d) H is also a subgroup of GL2 (R) since it has been established in
(a) that H is a subgroup of G and G is a subgroup of GL2 (R).
Are the left cosets of H in GL2 (R) equal to right cosets of H in
GL2 (R)?

4. Let n > 1 and let H = {σ ∈ Sn : σ(n) = n}. Show that H is a


subgroup of Sn . Describe the left-cosets of H in Sn and find [Sn : H].

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5. Let G be a group of order 49. Show that G is cyclic, or g 7 = e for every
g ∈ G.

6. Let G be a group of order 323. Show that every proper subgroup of G


is cyclic.

7. Let G be a group of order 15. Show that G has an element of order 3.

8. Read over the SageMath tutorials at the ends of Chapters 4 and 5 and
perform the following calculations. To submit your calculations, either
take a screenshot (or maybe a picture) of the webpage that contains
them or include a copy of the link (i.e., URL) that is produced by the
SageCell “share” button, or just copy and paste your commands and
the results into the document that you upload to Avenue to Learn.

(a) Produce the cyclic group Z100 using the “AdditiveAbelianGroup”


command, and then determine the order of the element 22 in this
group using the “order” command.
(b) Produce the alternating group A7 using the “AlternatingGroup”
command and then create and list the elements of the cyclic sub-
group of A7 that is generated by the (even) permutation

(1, 2, 3)(4, 7)(5, 6).

You will need to use the “subgroup” function to create the sub-
group.

Supplementary problems from the textbook


(not to be handed in)
• From Chapter 5, questions 1, 3, 6, 9, 23, 30, 31
• From Chapter 6, questions 3, 5, 10, 16, 17

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