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1 MAT ABSTRACT ALEBRA DISCUSSIONS - WEEK 8 CAN OZAN OUZ 1. Isomorphism Theorems In group theory, there are three main isomorphism theorems. They all follow from the first isomorphism theorem. Let s try to develop some intuition about these theorems and see how to apply them. We already say the first isomorphism theorem in the 6th discussion: First Isomorphism Theorem: Let Φ : be a group homomorphism. Then /ker(φ) Im(Φ) If you just consider the map Φ, it doesn t have to be injective or surjective. To ensure surjectivity, we restrict the target to the image of Φ. Injectivity is a bigger problem. Recall that a homomorphism is injective if and only if its kernel is trivial. But it may be the case that kerφ contains many elements. Our strategy is to consider another group where ker(φ) becomes a single element. This is exactly the quotient group /ker(φ). ker(φ) 1 g 1 g 2 g 3 g 4 g 5 1 h 1 Im(Φ) /ker(φ) 1 /ker(φ) Second Isomorphism Theorem: Let K,. Under some assumtions, we have K/ K/(K ) The assumptions we need are to make sure we have a group on the right hand side, and on the left hand side. For example for two subgroups, K, their product K is not a group in general. We need one of them to be normal. Also we will quotient out by to get a group, hence should be normal in. You should check if this guarantees K is normal in K. Date: October 12th,

2 2 CAN OZAN OUZ Let s just focus on the right hand side of the equation first: K/. We multiply K by, and then divide by. If we were doing this with number, they would just cancel each other. With sets and groups, it is a bit different. The reason is that intersection of and K doesn t contribute to the product K. For example, if we take = K, then K = KK = K, and we didn t gain anything by multiplication. owever we will divide by regardless of how big the product became. If we had K = 1, then second isomorphism theorem tells us K/ K, so multiplication and division cancel out. But with a non-trivial intersection, we need to quotient K by K. Below is a diagrammatic picture of what is going on. Remember is normal subgroup of, so I will draw it as a vertical rectangle all the way to the left. It will partition into its cosets. owever K doesn t need to be normal. So I will draw it as a horizontal rectanlge. It has to contain 1. a b c K 1 h = k k 1 k 2 K h 1 h 1 k 1 h 2 h 2 k 2 In the above picture, you can see that partitions K into cosets just as K partitions K into cosets. This is exactly the content of the second isomorphism theorem. Multiplication of cosets of in K has the same multiplication structure as cosets of K in K. Example Let = Z, = 6Z, K = 8Z. Since is abelian, is a normal subgroup. In general, K doesn t need to be normal in to apply the second isomorphism theorem. In our case, K is also normal since every subgroup of an abelian group is normal. Let s start by understanding K and K: K K = 6Z8Z = {a + b : a 6Z, b 8Z} = {6k + 8l : k, l Z} = {gcd(6, 8)n : n Z} = gcd(6, 8)Z since we saw in chapter one that the linear combinations of two integers is multiples of their gcd. Also K = 6Z 8Z = lcm(6, 8)Z Therefore by second isomorphism theorem, we get an isomorphism gcd(6, 8)Z/6Z 8Z/lcm(6, 8)Z

3 MAT ABSTRACT ALEBRA DISCUSSIONS - WEEK 8 3 The two groups above are isomorphic, in particular have the same order: or 6 lcm(6, 8) = gcd(6, 8) 8 gcd(6, 8)lcm(6, 8) = 6 8 Of course this formula works for any pair of positive integers. Third Isomorphism Theorem Let, K. If we assume the above expressions are groups, then / /K /K / It is easy to see that we need and K to be normal subgroups, and moreover we need K. Check that these assumptions are enough, that is with these assumptions, K is normal in and /K is normal in /K. The interpretation of third isomorphism theorem is simpler. If we quotient out the nominator and denominator with K, they cancel. Exercise: Try to understand the above statement by drawing a diagram for. Remember, should partition, and K should partition both and. Example Let = R, = Q and K = Z. By third isomorphism theorem, we have / R/Z Q/Z R/Q We saw earlier that R/Z gives us a circle via the homomorphism : R R 2, f(θ) = (cos(2πθ), sin(2πθ)). So we have S 1/ Q/Z R/Q We don t have an understanding of the groups Q/Z and R/Q yet, however if we understand one of them, third isomorphism theorem is going to let us understand the under. Also notice that the group Q/Z is a normal subgroup of S 1. Correspondance Theorem: All isomorphism theorems require taking a quotient by a normal subgroup. Taking the quotient results in a smaller group. So these isomorphism theorems relate larger groups to smaller groups via quotients. Then we should think about the following question: Question: By studying /, how much information do we get about? Suppose we have a chain of subgroups of :

4 4 CAN OZAN OUZ / K 1 K 2 K 3 1 / K 4 The image of under the quotient map is going to be the identity element of the quotient group. Therefore you can easily tell that there isn t enough space left for the image of K 4 under the quotient map. But for K 3 the situation is different. It s image will be K 3 /. This is a subgroup of /. Similarly K 1 / and K 2 / will be subgroups of /. They will have the same inclusion relation: / K 1 K 2 K 3 K 1 / K 2 / K 3 / 1 / K 4 This is the first part of the correspondance theorem. preserving bijection between the sets We have an inclusion {Subgroups of contatining } bijection {Subgroups of /} Furthermore, K i is normal in if and only if K i / is normal in. Moreover we have [ : K i ] = [/ : K i /]. So we can study subgroups of bu studying subgroup of /. Example Let = L n (R), the group of n by n invertible matrices. Recall that the determinant map was a surjective group homomorphism from L n (R) to R, with kernel the special linear group SL n (R). Then by first isomorphism theorem, we get L n (R)/SL n (R) R and R is an abelian group. Therefore all of its subgroups are normal. This tells us an important fact about subgroups of L n (R) containing SL n (R): They are normal in L n (R) by the second part of correspondance theorem.

5 MAT ABSTRACT ALEBRA DISCUSSIONS - WEEK Direct Products of roups Now we will focus our attention to an important construction in group theory: Direct product of two groups. This is going to be a very valuable tool to obtain new groups from old ones, providing us many new examples to work on. The construction is simple and relies on the cartesian product of sets. Let (, ) and (, #) be two groups. Then = {(g, h) : g, h } is the cartesian product the sets and. We can turn into a group via: (g 1, h 1 ). (g 2, h 2 ) := (g 1 g 2, h 1 #h 2 ) Remark: is not a subgroup of since it is not a subset of it. Elements of are pairs, and elements of are not. owever, the group is isomorphic to the group {1 }, which is a subgroup of. So we will say has a subgroup isomorphic to. Example Z/3Z Z/5Z = {a(mod 3, b(mod 5) : a, b Z} Z/15Z The last isomorphism comes from Chienese Remainder theorem: there is a unique integer modulo 15 which is a modulo 3 and b modulo 5. More generally we have if (m, n) = 1, then Z/nZ Z/mZ Z/mnZ. Example Z/2Z Z/2Z Z/4Z. This is easy to see by comparing elements of order 4 on both sides. Z/4Z is a cyclic group generated by an element of order 4, however all elements of Z/2Z Z/2Z have order two. In general, when m and n are not coprime, we have Z/nZ Z/mZ Z/nmZ An important result in group theory is the structure theorem for all finite abelian groups. You don t need to know this result for now, but I am writing it down to show importance of direct products: Theorem Any finite abelian group is of the form Z/p r1 1 Z Z/pr2 2 Z Z/pr k k Z where p i are distinc primes, r i are positive integers. We can obtain many new groups from the old ones using the direct product construction. For example we now have S 3 Z, S 3 Z/nZ, S 2 S 3, S 2 S 3 S 4...etc. I suggest you to try to use the correspondance theorem to understand subgroups of some of these groups. It is a good practice.

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