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IIT (BHU) 2024-2025

Groups and Fields


Tutorial-3

1. Let S be the set of all real numbers except −1. Define ∗ on S by a ∗ b = a + b + ab.

(a) Show that ∗ gives a binary operation on S.


(b) Show that (S, ∗) is a group.
(c) Find the solution of the equation 2 ∗ x ∗ 3 = 7 in S.

2. If Q+ denotes the set of positive rational numbers, show that (Q+ , ∗) where a ∗ b = ab
2 for
all a, b ∈ Q+ is a group. What is the identity element? What is the inverse of an element
q ∈ Q+ ?

3. Let G be a group then show that

(a) identity element is unique in G.


(b) every element of G has a unique inverse.

4. If G is a group and a, b are any elements of G then show the following

(a) (a−1 )−1 = a.


(b) (ab)−1 = b−1 a−1 .

5. Let F be a field. Is every subgroup of F a field? Justify.

6. Show that a group G is abelian iff (ab)2 = a2 b2 .

7. If H is a subgroup of a group G then

(a) the identity element of H is the same as that of G.


(b) for any a ∈ H, inverses of a in H is the same as the inverse of a in G.

8. The intersection of two subgroups of a group is a subgroup.

9. Let G be an Abelian group and let H = {x2 |x ∈ G}. Then show that H is a subgroup of G.

10. Let G be a group and let a ∈ G. Then H = {an | n ∈ Z} is a subgroup of G and is the
smallest subgroup of G that contains a, that is, every subgroup containing a contains H.

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