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Sept.18, 2014
MATHEMATICS 323 - Assignment 1
Due time for this assignment: 5:00pm, Oct.2, 2014.
You may choose 5 questions. (Total: 10 marks)
1. Let
X(2; R) = {A =
(
a c
b d
)
M
22
(R) : a +b = c +d = 1; det A = 0}.
Show that X(2; R) is a group with respect to matrix multiplication. (This group is called the
stochastic group.)
2. Let G be a group and a, b G. Suppose |a| = |b| = |ab| = 2. Then show that ab = ba.
3. Suppose G is a group which has only one element a such that |a| = 2. Prove that xa = ax, for
all x G.
4. Show that a group G cannot be the union of two proper subgroups, in other words, if
G = H

K where H and K are subgroups of G, then H = G or K = G. Equivalently, if H and

K are subgroups of a group G, then H

K cannot be a subgroup unless H K or K H.

5. Determine all subgroups of the group Z
20
. Give sucient justication.
6. Show that the following two groups are not isomorphic: (Q, +, 0) and (Q

, , 1).
7. List the elements of the subgroup generated by
(a) the subset {42, 30, 66} in Z
36
;
(b) the subset {18, 24, 39} in Z.
8. Let G be a nite group, A, B be nonempty subsets of G with |A| + |B| > |G|. Show that
AB = G.