{"id":1127,"date":"2015-02-02T22:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/?page_id=1127"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:11:14","slug":"sughw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/teaching\/absalg\/sughw\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Suggested Homework<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\nEDITION 9 SUGGESTED PROBLEMS<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><br>\n<li>Chapter 1 &#8211; Introduction to Groups <br><br>\n    2, 13<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 2 &#8211; Groups <br><br>\n    5, 20, 22, 26, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 3 &#8211; Finite Groups, Subgroups <br><br>\n    1, 7, 19, 21, 23, 35, 47, 51, 53, 54, 59<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 4 &#8211; Cyclic Groups <br><br>\n    2, 4, 8, 16, 26, 62<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 5 &#8211; Permutation Groups <br><br>\n    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 29, 37, 43, 55<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 6 \u2013 Isomorphisms<br><br>\n    1, 5, 7, 13, 29, 39, 56, 65<br>\n    This problem in 8th edition but not 9th:<br>\n    Let a be belong to a group G and let |a| be finite. Let phi<sub>a<\/sub> be the automorphism of G given by phi<sub>a<\/sub>(x) = a x a<sup>-1<\/sup>. Show that |phi<sub>a<\/sub>| divides |a|. Exhibit an element a from a group for which 1 lt |phi<sub>a<\/sub>| lt |a|.<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 7 \u2013 Cosets and Lagrange\u2019s Theorem<br><br>\n    1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 21, 27, 29, 47<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 8 \u2013 External Direct Products<br><br>\n    5, 7, 11, 17, 22, 50, 69<br>\nThis problem is in 8thedition but not 9th:<br>\n     Is Z<sub>3<\/sub>+Z<sub>5<\/sub> isomorphic to Z<sub>15<\/sub>? Why?<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 9 &#8211; Normal Subgroups and Factor Groups<br><br>\n     10, 11, 12, 14, 25, 28, 34, 48, 50, 70<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 10 &#8211; Group Homomorphisms<br><br>\n      7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 11 &#8211; Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups<br><br>\n      6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 26, 27<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 12 &#8211; Introduction to Rings<br><br>\n      2, 6, 13, 23, 32, 50<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 13 &#8211; Integral Domains<br><br>\n      TBA<br>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\nEDITION 8 SUGGESTED PROBLEMS<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><br>\n<li>Chapter 1 &#8211; Introduction to Groups <br><br>\n    2, 11<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 2 &#8211; Groups <br><br>\n    5, 20, 22, 26, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 3 &#8211; Finite Groups, Subgroups <br><br>\n    1, 7, 12, 19, 21, 23, 33, 45, 48, 51, 53, 54, 61<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 4 &#8211; Cyclic Groups <br><br>\n    2, 4, 8, 16, 17, 26, 64<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 5 &#8211; Permutation Groups <br><br>\n    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 29, 37, 45, 71<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 6 \u2013 Isomorphisms<br><br>\n    1, 5, 7, 11, 27, 37, 53, 54, 61<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 7 \u2013 Cosets and Lagrange\u2019s Theorem<br><br>\n    1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 21, 27, 29, 47<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 8 \u2013 External Direct Products<br><br>\n    5, 7, 9, 11, 17, 22, 53, 73<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 9 &#8211; Normal Subgroups and Factor Groups<br><br>\n     11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 32, 34, 48, 50, 72<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 10 &#8211; Group Homomorphisms<br><br>\n      7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 11 &#8211; Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups<br><br>\n      6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 26, 27<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 12 &#8211; Introduction to Rings<br><br>\n      2, 6, 13, 23, 32, 50<br>\n<\/li><li>Chapter 13 &#8211; Integral Domains<br><br>\n      15, 24, 35, 41, 42, 46<br>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"parent":1042,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions\/3468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fgarvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}