830 problems.
- Jordan form of \(\begin{pmatrix}1&-1&0\\-1&4&-1\\-4&13&-3\end{pmatrix}\)
- Companion matrix of \(x^{2}-x+2\) over \(\mathbb{C}\)
- Jordan form of \(\begin{pmatrix}5&-1\\9&-1\end{pmatrix}\oplus\begin{pmatrix}7&-2\\12&-3\end{pmatrix}\)
- The nilradical is the intersection of all prime ideals
- \(A+\lambda B\) is invertible for all but finitely many \(\lambda\)
- Size of a conjugacy class equals the index of the centralizer
- \(K(a)=K(a^{2})\) when \(a\) is algebraic of odd degree over \(K\)
- Irreducible with a root in a splitting field splits completely
- Applications of the class equation
- Irreducible polynomials in characteristic \(p\) are \(g(x^{p^k})\) for unique separable \(g\)
- Galois group of \(x^2-2\) is \(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\)
- Splitting field and intermediate fields of \(x^{4}-3\) over \(\mathbb{Q}\)
- \(a\) is algebraic over \(K(b)\) if \(b\) is algebraic over \(K(a)\) and transcendental over \(K\)
- Multiplicative group of a finite field is cyclic
- Finite fields are not algebraically closed
- Diagonalizability versus invertibility
- The stabilizer of a point under a group action is a subgroup
- The Galois group of \(x^n-1\) over \(\QQ\) is \((\ZZ/n\ZZ)^\times\)
- Finite \(p\)-groups are nilpotent
- \(\Inn(G)\) is normal in \(\Aut(G)\)
- \(O_p(G)\) is the unique maximal normal \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\)
- Nilpotent groups are solvable
- \(H\operatorname{char} K\operatorname{char} G\) implies \(H\operatorname{char} G\)
- An irreducible in \(\FF_p[x]\) divides \(x^{p^n}-x\) iff its degree divides \(n\)
- An operator with irreducible minimal polynomial is semisimple
- A normal \(p\)-subgroup is contained in every Sylow \(p\)-subgroup
- Burnside’s orbit-counting lemma
- A finite group is solvable iff its composition factors have prime order
- No simple group of order \(p^2 q^2\) for primes \(p<q\)
- An ideal is maximal iff the quotient is a field
- \(A_n\) is simple for \(n\geq 5\)
- The center of \(S_n\) is trivial for \(n\geq 3\)
- A ring is local iff \(x\) or \(1-x\) is a unit for every \(x\)
- A linear operator cycling a basis has minimal polynomial \(x^n-1\) and is diagonalizable
- A ring in which every non-unit is nilpotent is local
- \(A_n\) is simple for \(n\geq 5\)
- Every ideal in a Noetherian ring is finitely generated
- Prime ideals are primary
- An ideal containing a unit is the whole ring
- \(|HK|=|H||K|/|H\cap K|\)
- Normality of \(\QQ(\sqrt[3]{2})/\QQ\)
- Fundamental theorem of Galois theory
- Groups of prime order are cyclic
- Algebraic extensions are transitive
- \(\QQ(2^{1/3})\) and \(\QQ(\zeta_3 2^{1/3})\) are isomorphic but not equal
- Every \(p\)-group has a nontrivial center
- The union of all maximal ideals is the set of non-units
- \(P\cap H\in\syl_p(H)\) for \(P\in\syl_p(G)\) and \(H\trianglelefteq G\)
- \(A_n\) is the unique proper nontrivial normal subgroup of \(S_n\) for \(n\geq 5\)
- \(-1\) is the unique element of order \(2\) in the quaternion group
- Groups of order \(12\) with a normal subgroup of order \(4\) are isomorphic to \(A_4\)
- Quotients of dihedral groups are dihedral
- Splitting field of \(x^3-2\) is \(\QQ(\sqrt[3]{2},\zeta_3)\)
- If \(\spec(R)\subseteq\maxspec(R)\) then \(R\) is a UFD
- Groups of order 99
- An \(m\)-cycle is odd iff \(m\) is even
- Sylow subgroups of a group of order \(240\), and subgroups of order \(15\)
- \(C_G(H)\trianglelefteq N_G(H)\)
- Diagonalizable versus distinct eigenvalues
- \(\GF(p^d)\leq\GF(p^n)\) iff \(d\) divides \(n\)
- Cayley-Hamilton theorem
- \(\Inn(G)\cong G/Z(G)\)
- Every nonzero ring with identity has a maximal ideal
- The minimal polynomial over \(L\) divides the minimal polynomial over \(F\)
- \(x^{p^n}-x\) is the product of monic irreducibles in \(\FF_p[x]\) of degree dividing \(n\)
- \(A_n\) is generated by \(3\)-cycles
- The minimal polynomial divides the characteristic polynomial
- \(\ff(R[t])=\ff(R)(t)\)
- Algebraicity of \(\alpha\pm\beta\) and \(\alpha\beta^{\pm 1}\)
- \(K[\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n]=K(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n)\) for algebraic \(\alpha_i\)
- Galois group of \(x^3+4x+2\) over \(\QQ\) is \(S_3\)
- Commuting diagonalizable matrices are simultaneously diagonalizable
- Normality is not transitive
- The radical of an ideal is the intersection of the primes containing it
- Groups of order 10
- Generating sets for \(S_n\)
- Abelian groups are nilpotent
- Every prime ideal is radical
- Groups of order \(pq\) with \(q<p\)
- Composition factors of finite solvable groups have prime order
- The Galois group of \(x^n - 2\) over \(\QQ\)
- Splitting fields of separable polynomials are Galois
- Intermediate fields of \(\QQ(2^{1/4},\zeta_8)\)
- \([A_4,A_4]\cong\ZZ_2^2\)
- \(\unitsof{R}\) need not be closed under addition
- Every permutation is a product of disjoint cycles
- \(H\) characteristic in \(K\trianglelefteq G\) implies \(H\trianglelefteq G\)
- A linear operator is diagonalizable iff \(V\) is the direct sum of its eigenspaces
- Every proper ideal is contained in a maximal ideal
- Cyclic groups are solvable
- The four groups of order 28
- The radical of an ideal is the intersection of the primes containing it
- Groups of order \(pqr\) have a normal Sylow subgroup
- If \(H\le N_G(K)\) then \(HK\) is a subgroup
- A permutation is odd iff it has an odd number of even cycles
- Groups of order \(p^3\) have a normal subgroup of order \(p^2\)
- Kernel of conjugation \(G\to\Aut(G)\) is \(Z(G)\)
- \(Z(S_n)=1\) for \(n\geq 4\)
- Intermediate fields of \(\QQ(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})=\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3})\)
- \(p\)-groups are nilpotent
- \(\nilrad{R}=\rad(0)\)
- \(Z(G)=\bigcap_{a\in G}C_G(a)\)
- Transitive subgroups of \(S_3\) are \(S_3\) and \(A_3\)
- Intersections, products, and sums of ideals are ideals
- Prime ideals are irreducible
- \(p\)-groups are solvable
- The cokernel of \(A\in M_n(\ZZ)\) is finite of order \(|\det A|\) iff \(\det A\neq 0\)
- Disjoint cycles commute
- The union of two ideals need not be an ideal
- \(HK\) is a subgroup of \(G\) iff \(HK=KH\)
- Finitely generated modules over a Noetherian local ring are flat iff free
- Nontrivial normal subgroups of a finite \(p\)-group meet the center
- The number of conjugates of \(H\) equals \([G:N_G(H)]\)
- \(x^{p^n}-x\) is the product of monic irreducibles in \(\FF_p[x]\) of degree dividing \(n\)
- \(I\) is a prime ideal iff \(R/I\) is an integral domain
- The five groups of order 12
- \(C_H(x)=H\cap C_G(x)\) for \(H\leq G\)
- Non-units in a local ring form a proper ideal contained in the Jacobson radical
- \(\QQ\) is not finitely generated as a group
- \(\maxspec(R)\subseteq\spec(R)\), with strict containment possible
- If \(A\) is finite type over Noetherian \(R\) and finite over \(B\), then \(B\) is finite type over \(R\)
- Nontrivial normal subgroups of a finite \(p\)-group meet the center
- If \(E/k\) and \(F/k\) are Galois with \(E\cap F=k\), then \(EF/k\) is Galois with group \(G(E/k)\times G(F/k)\)
- Stabilizers of group actions are subgroups
- A group of order \(p^2 q^2\) has a normal Sylow subgroup
- \([\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3}):\QQ]=4\) and \(\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3})=\QQ(\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{3})=\QQ(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})\)
- \(S_4\) has two normal subgroups \(A_4\) and \(\ZZ_2^2\)
- Localization at a prime ideal is a local ring
- The stabilizer of an element need not be a normal subgroup
- Maximal subgroups of a \(p\)-group are normal
- \(C_G(H)\subseteq N_G(H)\leq G\)
- \(\mathrm{rad}(IJ)=\mathrm{rad}(I)\cap\mathrm{rad}(J)\)
- In a PID, a nonzero \(x\) is irreducible iff \((x)\) is maximal
- \([S_n,S_n]=A_n\)
- Groups of order \(p^2q^2\) are abelian when \(q\nmid p^2-1\) and \(p\nmid q^2-1\)
- Galois group of \(x^{n}-1\) over \(\mathbb{Q}\) is abelian
- Fixed-point-free elements, quotients of \(\ZZ^3\) of order \(p^2\), groups of order \(pq\), and cyclic Sylow \(2\)-subgroups
- Fixed-point-free elements, quotients of \(\mathbb{Z}^3\), groups of order \(pq\), and cyclic Sylow \(2\)-subgroups
- Normal subgroups are unions of conjugacy classes
- Vandermonde determinant \(\det A=\prod_{i<j}(\lambda_j-\lambda_i)\)
- Cyclic groups, Euler’s totient, and \(\operatorname{Aut}(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})\)
- Recognizing direct products
- Element orders divide the order of a finite group
- Nontrivial normal subgroups of a \(p\)-group meet the center
- Transitivity of algebraic, normal, and separable extensions
- An irreducible generates any principal ideal containing it in a PID
- \(\det(A^{a})=\det(A)^{n-1}\) and \((A^{a})^{a}=\det(A)^{n-2}A\)
- \(x\in J(R)\iff 1-xR\subseteq R^\times\)
- Rank-nullity theorem via Jordan canonical form
- Cayley-Hamilton via invariant flags of an upper-triangular basis
- The conjugates of a proper subgroup of a finite group do not cover the group
- \(A\) is a field iff \(A\) is a simple ring iff every homomorphism from \(A\) to a nonzero field is injective
- Cayley-Hamilton via Jordan canonical form
- \([F:K]=6\) and \(\operatorname{Aut}_{K}F\cong S_{3}\) implies \(F\) is a cubic splitting field
- Quotient by nilradical is reduced
- Whether \(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{3+\sqrt{2}})\) is a splitting field over \(\mathbb{Q}\)
- Normal Sylow \(p\)-subgroup when \(|G|=p^{e}v\) with \(p>v\)
- \(R_p\) is a local ring for \(p\in\operatorname{Spec} R\)
- Prime ideals, factorization, and chain conditions in PIDs
- Complex normal matrices are unitarily diagonalizable
- Trivially intersecting normal subgroups commute
- \(x^\ell-1\) divides \(x^m-1\) iff \(\ell\) divides \(m\)
- A Dedekind domain is a PID if and only if it is a UFD
- Poincaré’s theorem on finite-index subgroups
- Finite extension with infinitely many intermediate fields
- Intersections, unions, and products of subgroups
- Algebraic, normal, and separable extensions over intermediate fields
- Irreducible polynomial of every degree over \(\mathbb{F}_{p}\)
- Lagrange’s theorem: \(|G|/|H|=[G:H]\) for finite \(G\)
- Nonzero nilpotent matrices are not diagonalizable
- Every non-unit of \(R\) is contained in a maximal ideal
- \(G/Z(G)\) cyclic implies \(G\) abelian; \(G/N\) abelian iff \([G,G]\le N\)
- \(x^{\ell}-1\) divides \(x^{m}-1\) if and only if \(\ell\) divides \(m\)
- Splitting field of \((x^{2}-2)(x^{2}-3)(x^{2}-5)\) over \(\mathbb{Q}\)
- Normal subgroups of \(p\)-groups intersect the center
- Nilpotents, units, and zero-divisors in \(R[x]\)
- An irreducible \(f\in\mathbb{F}_p[x]\) of degree \(d\) divides \(x^{p^n}-x\) if and only if \(d\) divides \(n\)
- Degree of a splitting field of a degree-\(n\) polynomial divides \(n!\)
- A ring is local if \(R\setminus\mfm\) consists of units, or if \(1+\mfm\) consists of units
- Nontrivial solutions of \(Ax=0\) versus \(\det A=0\) over an integral domain
- Recognition theorem for internal direct products
- Galois group and intermediate fields of \(\QQ(\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}})/\QQ\)
- Finite fields are perfect; example of an imperfect field
- Common eigenvectors and simultaneous diagonalization of commuting endomorphisms
- Join of intermediate fields and \(\mathrm{Aut}\) of a Galois extension
- Cayley-Hamilton theorem, cokernels of integer matrices, and diagonalizability
- \(\sum(-1)^{i}\dim V_{i}=0\) for a finite exact sequence of vector spaces
- \(K\)-automorphisms permute the roots of polynomials in \(K[x]\)
- Radical, prime, and maximal ideals correspond under \(R\to R/I\)
- Size of a conjugacy class divides the order of the group
- Galois group of \(x^p-2\) over \(\QQ\)
- Splitting field of \(x^{3}-x+1\) over \(\mathbb{F}_{3}\)
- \(R[x]\) is a PID if and only if \(R\) is a field
- Primitive odd \(n\)th root of unity implies a primitive \(2n\)th root of unity
- \(\mathbb{Q}(x)\) is Galois over \(\mathbb{Q}(x^{2})\) but not over \(\mathbb{Q}(x^{3})\)
- \(\mathbb{F}_{p^n}\) is the splitting field of \(x^{p^n}-x\) over \(\mathbb{F}_p\)
- A ring in which every element is a unit or nilpotent is local
- The union of conjugates of a proper subgroup is a proper subset
- \([\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_{n}+\zeta_{n}^{-1}):\mathbb{Q}]=\varphi(n)/2\)
- A splitting field of separable elements is Galois
- The normal closure of a simple extension is its minimal-polynomial splitting field
- A finite extension is algebraic and contained in a finite splitting field
- The sum of (skew-)symmetric matrices is (skew-)symmetric
- \(A/IA\) is an \(R/I\)-module
- Unique proper nontrivial normal subgroup of \(S_n\) (\(n\geq 5\)) is \(A_n\)
- \((2,x)\) in \(\ZZ[x]\) is not a direct sum of cyclic modules
- Translation-invariant subspaces of \(L^1\) as convolution algebras relative to \(L^2\)
- Groups of order 56 and actions of \(\ZZ/7\ZZ\) on groups of order 8
- The quaternion group has a unique element of order \(2\), namely \(-1\)
- Intermediate fields of a finite cyclic Galois extension
- Sylow subgroups for distinct primes intersect trivially
- Groups of order \(240\): Sylow numbers and subgroups of order \(15\)
- Every non-unit lies in a maximal ideal
- Maximal subgroups of \(p\)-groups are normal
- A non-semisimple \(\CC\)-algebra
- Eigenvalues of skew-symmetric matrices
- Groups of order \(p^2\) are abelian
- \(\Inn(G)\cong G/Z(G)\)
- Schur’s lemma
- \(\ZZ/m\ZZ\) as a \(\ZZ/(mk)\ZZ\)-module and its dual
- Order of \(1+p\) in \((\ZZ/p^2\ZZ)^\times\) is \(p\); a nonabelian group of order \(p^3\)
- \(P\cap H\in\syl_p(H)\) for \(P\in\syl_p(G)\) and \(H\trianglelefteq G\)
- Classification of abelian groups of a given composite order
- Groups of order \(pq\) (\(q<p\)) are never simple, and are cyclic if \(q\nmid(p-1)\)
- The integers form a PID
- Cokernel of a map \(\ZZ^4\to\ZZ^3\)
- Finite division rings are fields, and an infinite noncommutative example
- Jordan form of the \(n\times n\) all-ones matrix over \(\CC\)
- A normal subgroup of order \(4\) does not force a group of order \(12\) to be \(A_4\)
- Torsion matrix cokernels over a PID and an \(R\times F\) example
- Galois group of \(x^3+2x+1\)
- Algebraic, normal, and separable extensions over intermediate fields
- The nilradical is contained in the Jacobson radical
- \(C_G(G)=Z(G)\)
- Whether \(k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]\) is a PID
- Normal subgroups of \(A_4\)
- Local rings via localization and units; primes are primary and irreducible
- Isomorphic subgroups need not have isomorphic quotients
- The center of a \(p\)-group is nontrivial
- A commutative unital ring is a field iff its only ideals are \(\{0\}\) and \(R\)
- Abelian groups of order 36
- Isomorphism classes of subgroups of \(\QQ\)
- A group of order \(p^2q\) has a nontrivial normal subgroup
- \(\QQ(2^{1\over 3})\) and \(\QQ(\zeta_3 2^{1\over 3})\)
- Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions
- Finite-dimensional representations of compact Lie groups
- Artin–Wedderburn theorem
- \(\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z\) as a direct sum of fields
- Groups of order \(p^3\) are abelian or have \(|Z(G)|=p\)
- Characteristic and minimal polynomials of the Frobenius automorphism
- Normal closure and Galois theory of \(\QQ(\sqrt[3]{21})\)
- Isomorphic but unequal fields
- Structure theorem for PID-modules applied to a linear operator
- \(C_H(x)=H\cap C_G(x)\)
- Groups of order 8
- Irreducible modules over a PID are \(R/(p)\) and indecomposable modules are \(R/(p^n)\)
- Noetherian rings and \(\bigcap I^n\)
- A degree-\(6\) \(S_3\)-extension is a cubic splitting field, and Galois groups of joins and intersections
- Groups of order 15
- A PID with a unique prime ideal
- Groups of order \(p^2q^2\) have a normal Sylow subgroup
- Centers of \(\GL_n(\FF_p)\) and \(\SL_n(\FF_p)\) are scalar matrices
- Possible Galois groups of an abelian extension of degree \(540\), and quadratic intermediate extensions \(L/E\)
- \(H\operatorname{char} K\trianglelefteq G\) implies \(H\trianglelefteq G\)
- Toeplitz operator
- Whether \(\QQ(2^{1/3})/\QQ\) is normal
- Irreducible polynomials of degrees 7 and 14 over \(\FF_p\)
- Every field is a simple ring
- Galois group of an irreducible quartic with exactly two real roots is \(S_4\) or \(D_4\)
- The centralizer of a subgroup is a subgroup
- A non-symmetric polynomial whose square is symmetric
- A root field with normal closure of Galois group \(S_n\) is not contained in a radical extension
- A field is perfect if every irreducible polynomial is separable
- Images of the unit circle under linear transformations of \(\mathbb{R}^2\)
- Order, centre, and \(\PSL_2(\FF_3)\) as a permutation group
- Torsion elements of an \(R\)-module: definition, an infinite cyclic example, and the torsion submodule over a domain
- A PID that is not Euclidean
- \(H\operatorname{char} K\operatorname{char} G\) implies \(H\operatorname{char} G\)
- \(Z(G)\) is characteristic in \(G\)
- A ring in which unique factorization fails
- Orbit-stabilizer theorem
- No simple group of order \(132\)
- The splitting field of \(x^3-2\) is \(\QQ(\sqrt[3]{2},\zeta_3)\)
- A real \(5\times 5\) matrix with eigenvalues \(0\), \(1+i\), and \(1+2i\): injectivity, characteristic and minimal polynomials, and fixed points
- \(Z(A_n)=1\) for \(n\geq 4\)
- Groups of order \(45\) are abelian
- \(G/Z(G)\) cyclic implies \(G\) abelian
- Solvability of polynomials by radicals
- \(\GF(p^n)\) is the splitting field of \(x^{p^n}-x\) over \(\FF_p\)
- \(\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3})=\QQ(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})\) has degree \(4\) over \(\QQ\)
- Proper nontrivial normal subgroups of \(S_4\) are \(A_4\) and \(\ZZ_2^2\)
- Invariant factors of \(R/(r)\oplus R/(s)\) over a PID
- \(S_4\) is solvable and nonabelian
- Galois group of \(x^4-3\)
- Roots of an integer polynomial with Galois group \(S_n\)
- Subgroup lattice of \(S_3\)
- A finite group is not the union of conjugates of a proper subgroup; \(S_n\) has a derangement
- Galois group of \(x^p-2\) over \(\QQ\) for odd primes \(p\)
- \(HK\) is a subgroup iff \(HK=KH\)
- \(\mathrm{Gal}(\QQ(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})/\QQ)\)
- Unique intermediate field of each degree in a cyclic Galois extension
- The discriminant of a polynomial is a polynomial in the coefficients, via symmetric polynomials
- A Galois group that is neither \(S_n\) nor \(A_n\)
- \(p\)-groups are nilpotent
- Representations and the group algebra of \(\ZZ\)
- Matrices satisfying \(A^2=A\) are diagonalizable
- A long exact sequence from a short exact sequence of abelian groups and a third group
- Galois extension
- A group is solvable iff its derived series terminates
- If \(\exp(A)=B\in\SL_n(\RR)\), must \(A\in\SL_n(\RR)\)?
- \(A_n\) is simple for \(n\geq 5\)
- Cayley’s theorem and embeddings into \(S_m\) with \(m<n\)
- Sylow theorems
- \(\ZZ_n[m]\cong\ZZ_{(m,n)}\)
- The quaternion group and the number of elements of each order
- \([\QQ(\zeta+\zeta^{-1}):\QQ]=\phi(n)/2\)
- Maximal ideals in a countable product of copies of a commutative ring
- \(R/(k)\cong sA\) and \(R/(s)\cong A[s]\) when \(A=Ra\) is cyclic with annihilator \((r)\) and \(r=sk\)
- Subgroups of index two are normal
- Image \(pA\) and kernel \(A[p]\) of multiplication by \(p\)
- Whether algebraic, normal, and separable remain so over \(E\)
- \(\mathrm{Gal}(x^3+4x+2/\QQ)\cong S_3\)
- Whether \(A_4\) is simple, and conjugacy in \(S_4\) and \(A_4\)
- Every simple \(R\)-module is cyclic
- Irreducibility of \((x^p-1)/(x-1)\) over \(\QQ\)
- Rational roots of monic polynomials in \(\ZZ[x]\) are integers
- Whether representations conjugate at each \(g\in G\) are isomorphic
- Whether inducing an irreducible representation of a subgroup remains irreducible
- Maximal ideals are prime; the converse fails
- In a finite ring every element is a unit or a zero-divisor
- The nilradical is contained in the Jacobson radical
- The nilradical is the intersection of all prime ideals
- \(R/\nilrad{R}\) is reduced
- Irreducible minimal polynomial implies every invariant subspace has an invariant complement
- \(\mathrm{Hom}_{\ZZ}(\ZZ_m,A)\cong A[m]\)
- Frobenius of \(\FF_{p^n}/\FF_p\) and its characteristic polynomial
- \(\CC^2\) as a cyclic torsion \(\CC[x]\)-module via \(\begin{pmatrix}1&2\\2&1\end{pmatrix}\)
- Groups of order \(p^2q\)
- Rational canonical form
- \(H\le N_G(K)\) is sufficient but not necessary for \(HK\) to be a subgroup
- \(\mathrm{Hom}_R(R,R)\cong R^{\mathrm{op}}\)
- Definition of a splitting field, and a finite extension of \(\FF_q\) as a Galois splitting field
- \(\mathrm{Gal}(M/L)\) is normal in \(\mathrm{Gal}(M/K)\)
- Definition of a splitting field
- Non-isomorphic groups can have isomorphic automorphism groups
- Groups of order \(p^3\)
- Groups of order \(p^2\) and of order \(pq\)
- \(A_n\) is normal in \(S_n\)
- \(\QQ\) is not a finitely generated group
- A subgroup of index equal to the smallest prime dividing \(|G|\) is normal
- Euler totient of primes and composites
- Every permutation in \(S_n\) is a product of disjoint cycles
- \(\phi(n)\) is even for \(n>2\)
- \(S_p\) is generated by a \(p\)-cycle and a transposition
- Nilradical is intersection of primes
- Burnside’s lemma
- Diagonalizable does not imply distinct eigenvalues
- \([K(\alpha):K]\) equals the degree of the minimal polynomial of algebraic \(\alpha\)
- Order of a cyclic module over a commutative ring
- Definitions of UFD and PID, and a UFD that is not a PID
- Representations of \(S_3\) and restriction to \(S_2\)
- Galois groups of irreducible cubics
- A finite group is solvable iff its composition factors have prime order
- Representations and character table of \(D_4\)
- Conjugacy classes in \(S_n\)
- \(\operatorname{Frac}(R[t]) = \operatorname{Frac}(R)(t)\)
- Galois group of \(x^{15}+2\) over \(\QQ\) is a semidirect product of a Sylow \(2\)-subgroup with \(\ZZ/15\ZZ\)
- \(R/(p)\) is a field when \((p)\) is prime in a PID
- Disjoint cycles commute
- The integers \(n\) with \(\phi(n)=2\) are \(3,4,6\)
- Diagonalizable matrices have squarefree minimal polynomials
- Maximal implies prime
- \(\ZZ^4/N\cong\ZZ\oplus\ZZ/(3)\oplus\ZZ/(6)\oplus\ZZ/(6)\) by Smith normal form
- Equivalence of \(A\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{b}\) with the corresponding system of linear equations
- Abelian groups of order 200
- An intermediate field of a Galois extension is normal iff its Galois group is a normal subgroup
- Finite fields, subfields, extensions, and automorphisms
- Dyadic rationals form a proper noncyclic subgroup of \((\QQ,+)\)
- If \(M/K\) is Galois, whether \(L/K\) or \(M/L\) is Galois
- Fundamental theorem of Galois theory
- An endomorphism of \(\RR^5\) with eigenvalue \(0\) is neither injective nor surjective
- Galois theory of \(x^{2n}-2\)
- Groups of order \(99\)
- A diagonalizable matrix has a cyclic vector if and only if its eigenvalues are distinct
- Diagonalizable iff the space is a direct sum of eigenspaces
- Hilbert’s theorem 90
- \(NH\) is a subgroup when \(N\) is normal
- Cycle type, order, and sign of \((4\,2\,1)(6\,1\,3\,2)\)
- Degree of a field extension
- Matrices with the same Jordan form are similar
- Galois theory of cyclotomic extensions
- Galois group of \(x^3-3x-3\) over \(\QQ\) is \(S_3\)
- Stabilizers for \(\SL_2(\RR)\) acting on \(\RR^2\) and by Möbius transformations
- Stabilizers of points in the same orbit are conjugate
- Fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials
- The structure theorem for modules over a PID and conjugacy classes in \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\)
- \(F(\alpha)/F\) is finite iff \(\alpha\) is algebraic over \(F\)
- Groups of order 35
- Unique subfield of order \(p^d\) in a field with \(p^n\) elements
- Galois group of \(x^4-2x^2+9\)
- \(|HK| = |H||K|/|H \cap K|\)
- Groups of order 12, and two nonisomorphic subgroups of the same order
- Rational and Jordan forms with given minimal polynomials over \(\mathbb{Q}\) and \(\mathbb{C}\)
- \(p\)-adic numbers and valuations
- Polar decomposition of operators on a Hilbert space
- Factorisation in \(R[x_1,\ldots,x_n]\)
- Quotients by maximal ideals are fields and quotients by prime ideals are integral domains
- A normal \(p\)-subgroup is contained in every Sylow \(p\)-subgroup
- The field with 25 elements
- The smallest extension of \(\FF_q\) splitting every polynomial of degree at most \(4\)
- \(A_n\) is generated by \(3\)-cycles
- Classification of finitely generated modules over \(\mathbb{Z}\), PIDs, and Dedekind rings
- Prime and maximal ideals of \(\ZZ[x]\)
- Galois group of \(x^2-2\)
- Finite type over a Noetherian ring through a finite algebra
- Lower and upper central series, nilpotent groups, and solvable groups
- A square matrix is similar to its transpose
- Representations of finite groups: irreducibles, complete reducibility, and invariant inner products
- Group representations and their traces
- Chinese remainder theorem
- Principal and prime ideals in \(\CC[x,y]\)
- Galois group of \(x^3-2\) over \(\QQ\)
- Structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID
- Every \(p\)-group is nilpotent
- \(\Hom_{\ZZ}(\ZZ/2\ZZ,-)\) is not right exact
- Derived subgroup equals the centre for nonabelian groups of order \(p^3\)
- Cayley–Hamilton theorem
- Semisimple algebras and the Artin–Wedderburn theorem
- \(K(u)/K\) is not Galois and \(\Aut(K(u)/K)\) is trivial for a single root of an irreducible of degree \(n\)
- Discriminant of a polynomial
- Number of irreducible polynomials of degree \(6\) over \(\FF_2\)
- A \(p\)-group has nontrivial center
- A field homomorphism is zero or injective
- A linear operator with \(1\notin\spec(L)\) has unique fixed point \(0\)
- The torsion subset of a module over an integral domain is a submodule
- Jordan and rational canonical forms for \(\chi_A=(x-1)^2(x+1)^2\) and \(p_A=(x-1)(x+1)^2\)
- Minimal and characteristic polynomials of a \(5\times 5\) real matrix with eigenvalues \(0,1\pm i,1\pm 2i\)
- Eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix
- If \(K/F\) is cyclic and \(E/F\) is normal then \(E/F\) and \(K/E\) are cyclic
- Simple abelian groups are cyclic
- \(C_G(H) \subseteq N_G(H) \leq G\)
- \(\Endo_R(A)\) is a ring
- Galois group and intermediate fields of \(x^3-7\) over \(\QQ\), and Galois groups over \(\RR\) and \(\FF_{13}\)
- Colorings of a tetrahedron with \(C\) colors up to symmetry
- For symmetric \(A,B\), the product \(AB\) is symmetric iff \(AB=BA\); \(BB^t\) and \(B+B^t\) are symmetric
- Spectral theorem for real symmetric matrices
- Jordan–Hölder theorem
- Groups of order \(p^n\) are solvable, and groups of order \(p^r q^s\)
- The rings and fields \(K[x]\), \(K(x)\), \(K[\alpha]\), and \(K(\alpha)\)
- The splitting field of a separable polynomial is Galois
- Rational canonical forms of \(3\times 3\) matrices over \(\QQ\) annihilated by \((x^2+2)(x-1)^3\)
- Linear actions of \(\ZZ/5\ZZ\), \(S_3\), and dihedral groups on complex vector spaces
- Groups of order 14
- Ring of integers and integrality over \(\ZZ\)
- Induced representations
- When \(A^n\to 0\)
- Inner automorphisms preserve conjugacy of subgroups
- Cauchy’s theorem
- \(A_n\) is simple for \(n \geq 5\)
- Similarity and equivalence of matrices are equivalence relations
- \(\operatorname{Hom}_{\ZZ}(\ZZ/m\ZZ, \ZZ) = 0\)
- Element orders in the quaternion group, and quadratic subfields of a \(Q_8\)-extension of \(\QQ\)
- A polynomial of degree \(2\) or \(3\) in \(k[x]\) is irreducible iff it has no root in \(k\)
- Witt’s theorem on real quadratic forms
- Rational canonical forms from specified minimal polynomials in dimensions \(6\) and \(10\)
- Euclidean domains and PIDs
- Composition series, solvability, and nilpotence
- \(\ZZ/p\ZZ\otimes\ZZ/q\ZZ\) for distinct primes \(p\) and \(q\)
- Constructible numbers
- Nonisomorphic groups with equivalent representation theory
- Smith normal form of quotients of a free abelian group, and the Euclidean-domain case
- Eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices are real, and eigenvalues of unitary matrices have modulus \(1\)
- Quotients of quadratic integer rings by nonzero prime ideals
- Algebraic and transcendental elements
- The transitive subgroups of \(S_3\) are \(S_3\) and \(A_3\)
- Tensor product
- Abelian groups of order 16
- Consider a nonconstant function between two compact Riemann Surfaces.
- An \(m\)-cycle is odd iff \(m\) is even
- Evaluation makes \(A\) a module over \(\mathrm{End}_R(A)\)
- A subgroup that meets every conjugacy class is the whole group
- The \(p\)-torsion \(A[p]\) is an \(R/(p)\)-module
- \(SL_2(\ZZ)\) is not solvable
- Diagonalizable matrices are dense over \(\CC\) and Zariski-dense over an algebraically closed field
- Groups of order \(28\)
- Eigenvalues of a linear map preserving a nondegenerate alternating form come in pairs \(k,1/k\)
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for the Galois group of a degree \(5\) polynomial to have order divisible by \(3\)
- No simple group of order \(p^2 q^2\)
- Jordan form of the \(n\times n\) all-ones matrix
- Minimal polynomial divides the characteristic polynomial
- \(\mathrm{Gal}(\QQ(\sqrt{n_1},\ldots,\sqrt{n_m})/\QQ(\sqrt{n_1}+\cdots+\sqrt{n_m}))\)
- Nilpotent matrix
- Factor 6 in two different ways in \(\ZZ[\sqrt{-5}]\)
- A Galois-theoretic proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra
- The center of \(S_n\) is trivial for \(n \geq 3\)
- Definition of a splitting field; a finite extension of a finite field as a splitting field, and that the extension is Galois
- Nontrivial centre of a group of order \(p^3\)
- Injective module
- \(Z(G) = \bigcap_{a \in G} C_G(a)\)
- Number of irreducible representations of \(S_n\)
- \([\QQ(2^{3/2}):\QQ]\)
- The kernel of a homomorphism is a normal subgroup
- The class equation
- A group of order \(231\) has a normal Sylow \(7\)-subgroup and a central Sylow \(11\)-subgroup
- Existence and uniqueness of \(AX=b\) by rank
- Finite field extensions are algebraic
- Automorphisms of \(\CC\)
- The alternating group \(A_n\) is generated by \(3\)-cycles
- Impossibility of trisecting an angle, doubling a cube, and squaring a circle
- Whether a formal power series ring is a UFD
- Dedekind domains and class numbers
- Centralizer of a Jordan block
- Lie groups, Peter–Weyl, and representations of \(\ZZ\)
- Solvable groups, a nonabelian example, solvability of \(A_4\), and normality of its index-\(3\) subgroup
- Infinite simple groups have no finite-index subgroups
- Pairs \((n,p)\) for which \(\SL_n(\FF_p)\) is solvable
- An example of a flat module
- Projective module
- The Galois group of \(x^n - 2\) over \(\QQ\)
- Centre of \(S_n\)
- A subgroup of a finite \(p\)-group generating \(H/[H,H]\) equals \(H\)
- Normality of subgroups is not transitive
- Image, kernel, cosets, and the first isomorphism theorem
- Whether \(R\) a UFD implies \(R[x]\) a UFD
- Geometric diagonalisation of a quadratic form
- Naturality of the bidual evaluation map
- Every \(p\)-group is solvable
- If \(A=Ra\) with \(ra=0\) and \((r,s)=(1)\), then \(A=sA\) and \(A[s]=0\)
- A polynomial with Galois group \(S_3\)
- Subgroups of \(\ZZ^2\)
- If \(Q/N\) is a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G/N\) then \(Q\) contains a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\), and every Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G/N\) is such an image
- Groups of order \(p^3\) have a normal subgroup of order \(p^2\)
- Matrices with \(\tr(A^k)=0\) for all \(k\)
- A radical extension is radical over any intermediate field
- Stabilizers are subgroups
- Hom–tensor adjunction
- Why the character table is square
- Proper subfields of \(\CC\) isomorphic to \(\CC\)
- The Galois group of \(x^4-2\) over \(\QQ\)
- \(S_3\) is not nilpotent
- Matrices satisfying a given polynomial over algebraically closed and finite fields
- Square roots of matrices over \(\CC\)
- Generating sets for \(S_n\)
- \(L/F\) is algebraic if \(K/F\) and \(L/K\) are algebraic
- Mod by nilradical to kill nilpotents
- If every irreducible in \(F[x]\) is separable then every element of \(F\) is a \(p\)-th power
- Finitely generated flat modules over Noetherian local rings are free
- A \(p\)-cycle and a transposition generate \(S_p\) for \(p\) prime
- Operators to which the spectral theorem for symmetric matrices generalizes
- \(C_G(H)\) is normal in \(N_G(H)\)
- \(Z(R)\cong Z(M_n(R))\) via \(r\mapsto rI_n\)
- Conjugacy of matrices over a field and over its algebraic closure
- Orbits, stabilizers, and kernels of the standard \(G\)-actions
- The character table of \(S_4\)
- \(\Aut(S_3)=\Inn(S_3)\cong S_3\)
- Commutator subgroup of \(S_n\) is \(A_n\)
- Character table
- Irreducible representations of finite abelian groups
- Eisenstein’s criterion
- Jacobson radical
- Groups of order \(pq\) need not be nilpotent
- Conjugation on Sylow \(p\)-subgroups; \(|G|\) divides \(n_p!\) if \(G\) is simple; no simple group of order \(ap^k\) for \(1\le a\le 4\)
- \(\hom_R(A, B)\) under pointwise addition is an abelian group
- \(x^{p^n}-x\) is the product of all monic irreducibles of degree dividing \(n\)
- Nilpotent groups have nontrivial centers
- The center of \(M_n(R)\) is \(Z(R)I_n\)
- Infinitely many primes congruent to \(1\bmod m\) via cyclotomic polynomials
- Groups of order 55
- Number of conjugates of a subgroup equals \([G:N_G(H)]\)
- Conjugacy of stabilizers along an orbit
- Groups of prime order are cyclic and simple
- \(HK\) is a subgroup when \(H\le N_G(K)\); a counterexample when \(K\) is not a subgroup
- Groups of order 21
- Distinct Sylow subgroups intersect trivially; normal subgroups of \(p\)-groups meet the center
- Symmetry group of the icosahedron
- Polynomial rings over integral domains are integral domains
- \(g^{\lvert G\rvert}=e\) for every \(g\in G\)
- The four lemma
- An ideal of a PID containing an irreducible \(a\) equals \(Ra\)
- Sufficient conditions for a degree \(5\) polynomial to have Galois group \(S_5\) over \(\QQ\)
- An irreducible cubic with Galois group not in \(A_3\) has Galois group \(S_3\)
- Elementary matrices preserve solutions of \(Ax=b\)
- Given a skew-symmetric/skew-Hermitian matrix S, show that
- \((\FF_9)^\times\)
- \(Ax=0\) has a nontrivial solution iff \(\rank(A)<m\)
- A permutation is odd iff it has an odd number of even-length cycles
- Groups of order 14
- Left, right, and two-sided ideals in \(M_n(K)\), and simple ideals in \(\Endoo_K(V)\)
- The Galois group of an irreducible quintic with two non-real roots is \(S_5\)
- Finite integral domains are fields
- Definition and an example of a Noetherian ring
- Recognizing direct products
- Separable extensions
- Transitive subgroups of \(S_4\) are \(S_4\), \(A_4\), \(D_4\), \(\ZZ_2^2\), and \(\ZZ_4\)
- Intermediate fields of a Galois extension with group \(\ZZ_{42}\)
- \(\ZZ\) is initial among unital rings, so every abelian group has a unique \(\ZZ\)-module structure
- Galois group of \(x^5-2\)
- Groups of order four as Galois groups over \(\QQ\)
- Groups of order \(pq\) with \(p>q\) have a proper nontrivial normal subgroup
- \(\mathrm{Ext}\) of cyclic groups
- \(\operatorname{rank}(F_1\oplus F_2)=\operatorname{rank} F_1+\operatorname{rank} F_2\) for free modules with the invariant dimension property
- A group of order \(p^2q\) has a normal Sylow subgroup
- A field extension with finitely many intermediate fields is simple
- Orders of \(\GL_n(\FF_p)\) and \(\SL_n(\FF_p)\)
- The number of subgroups conjugate to \(H\le G\) divides \(|G|\)
- Normal subgroups of \(p\)-groups meet the center nontrivially
- Integral closure of \(\ZZ\) in \(\QQ(i)\)
- Finite groups as Galois groups
- An algebraic extension \(C/F\) splits every polynomial over \(F\) if and only if every algebraic extension of \(F\) embeds in \(C\)
- Separable polynomials of prescribed degree
- No group of order 90 is simple
- Subgroups of order 5 in \(S_5\) are transitive
- Number of invertible matrices over \(\ZZ/p\ZZ\)
- Group rings
- Intermediate fields of \(\QQ(2^{1/4},\zeta_8)\)
- Units or Zero Divisors
- Characteristic subgroups are normal
- Free modules over an integral domain are torsion-free; \(\QQ\) is torsion-free but not free as a \(\ZZ\)-module
- There is no simple group of order 148
- Galois group of \(x^n-1\) over \(\QQ\) as a function of \(n\)
- The Hilbert basis theorem
- Symmetric polynomials
- \(Z(G)\subseteq C_G(H)\subseteq N_G(H)\)
- \(N/C\) theorem
- A subgroup of index \(2\) is normal; the same for index the smallest prime dividing \(|G|\)
- Jordan form of an operator on a \(6\)-dimensional space with \(T^6=0\) and \(T^5\neq 0\), and similarity of any two such operators
- \(\alpha\pm\beta\) and \(\alpha\beta^{\pm 1}\) are algebraic over \(F\) whenever \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are
- Subgroups of \(\ZZ^3\) and the structure of the quotient
- Every finitely generated torsion-free abelian group is free abelian
- Representations of \(G\) lifted from \(G/H\) have common kernel \(H\), and the commutator subgroup
- Prime elements of \(\ZZ[i]\)
- \(F[x]\oplus F\) as the cokernel of a \(2\times 2\) Smith normal form matrix
- Prime ideals in \(k[x,y]\) and the Nullstellensatz
- Solving \(\exp(A)=B\) over \(\CC\) and over \(\RR\)
- Sylow \(p\)-subgroups of \(\GL_3(\FF_p)\), their conjugates, and their normalizers
- No group of order 36 is simple
- Ruler-and-compass constructibility of a regular \(n\)-gon
- \((\RR,+)\cong(\RR_{>0},\times)\), but not for \(\QQ\)
- The cokernel of \(A\in M_n(\mathbb{Z})\) is finite iff \(\det A\neq 0\), with order \(|\det A|\)
- Examples of local rings
- A cubic with Galois group \(S_3\)
- Wedderburn’s theorem and rational group algebras
- Quotients of dihedral groups are cyclic or dihedral
- Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz
- Solvability by radicals, \(S_5\), and simplicity of \(A_5\)
- Normality of field extensions is not transitive
- \(O_p(G)\) is the maximal normal \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\)
- \(D_4\)-invariant polynomials in two real variables
- \(\Inn(G)\) is normal in \(\Aut(G)\)
- Characters of the multiplicative group of a finite field
- Gauss’s lemma: factorisation in \(\QQ[x]\) versus \(\ZZ[x]\)
- Kernels of irreducible representations and exactness of induction
- Solvable groups have a nontrivial normal subgroup
- The number of irreducible polynomials of degree \(4\) over \(\FF_2\)
- Self-adjoint operators have real eigenvalues and are unitarily diagonalizable, and Schur’s theorem
- Galois group of \(x^7-1\) over \(\QQ\)
- Bilinear forms and orthogonal matrices
- Subgroups of \(F_2\)
- Every element of a finite-dimensional \(k\)-algebra is integral over \(k\), and a non-zero-divisor is a unit
- A Lie group with no faithful finite-dimensional representation
- Conjugacy classes in \(S_5\) by cycle type, corresponding to partitions of \(5\)
- If \(N\) and \(G/N\) are solvable then \(G\) is solvable
- Separable extensions are normal iff they are splitting fields
- Composition factors of finite solvable groups have prime order
- The kernel of the conjugation homomorphism \(G\to\mathrm{Aut}(G)\) is \(Z(G)\)
- Galois theory exercises: splitting fields, intermediate extensions, finite fields
- Irreducible varieties
- Structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID
- Cyclotomic specialization of \(\ZZ[t]/(t^p-1)\)
- Cosets of a subgroup all have the same cardinality
- Normal subgroups
- Frobenius reciprocity
- Fundamental theorem of cosets: \(xH=yH\iff x^{-1}y\in H\iff y^{-1}x\in H\)
- Examples of simple groups
- Perfect fields
- Galois group of \(x^2+1\) and the Gaussian integers
- Orders of elements of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\ZZ)\)
- Number of elements of order \(4\) in \(\Aut(\ZZ/20)\)
- The order of an element divides the order of the group
- When conjugacy classes of \(S_n\) split in \(A_n\)
- The centralizer \(C_G(s)\) is a subgroup in which \(\langle s\rangle\) is normal
- Groups of order \(p^2q^2\) with \(q\nmid(p^2-1)\) and \(p\nmid(q^2-1)\) are abelian
- Nilradical and infinitely many primes in \(F[x]\)
- The \(R/(p)\)-module structure on \(A/pA\)
- Irreducible polynomials over a field in which every element has a \(p\)th root are separable
- Fundamental theorem of Galois theory and \(\QQ(\zeta_{43})\)
- PIDs, and a UFD that is not a PID
- Quadratic extensions in characteristic not \(2\) are Galois
- A finite abelian group with at most \(n\) elements of order dividing \(n\) is cyclic
- Solving linear ODEs with constant coefficients using linear algebra
- \([\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3}):\QQ]\)
- \(x^{p^d}-x\) divides \(x^{p^n}-x\) iff \(d\) divides \(n\)
- A non-normal subgroup, and whether \(\mathrm{SO}(2)\normal\mathrm{SL}_2(\RR)\)
- Abelian groups are nilpotent
- Finite-dimensional division algebras over \(\RR\)
- Finite-dimensional representations of a compact Lie group are equivalent to unitary ones
- When a cyclic group is solvable
- Example of an Artinian ring
- Splitting fields of separable polynomials are Galois, with the Galois correspondence and compositum
- Classification of groups of order \(10\)
- Stabilizers need not be normal
- \(\Aut(\ZZ/p)\), \(\Aut((\ZZ/p)^n)\), and \(\Aut(\ZZ/n)\)
- Conjugacy classes of \(3\times 3\) rational matrices satisfying \(A^4-A^3-A+1=0\)
- Finite fields with \(p^n\) elements
- Galois group of \(x^3+6x+3\)
- Singular value decomposition
- Groups of order \(p^2 q\) have a nontrivial normal subgroup
- Every irreducible representation of \(G\) appears in a tensor power of a faithful finite-dimensional representation
- Whether real matrices conjugate over \(\CC\) are conjugate over \(\RR\)
- The center of \(S_3\) is trivial
- Galois groups of cubics
- Dimensions of the irreducible representations of \(D_n\), and \(\sum_i(\dim V_i)^2=|G|\)
- Elements \(g\) for which \(\chi(g)\) is real for every character \(\chi\)
- Smith normal form of a matrix over a PID
- Groups with nontrivial automorphisms
- The number and sizes of Jordan blocks
- A \(k\)-cycle as a product of transpositions
- Ideals, \(\spec\), \(\maxspec\), and radicals
- A finite abelian group is the product of its Sylow subgroups
- Cyclic extensions of prime order \(p\)
- Induced representations of \(G\) from a subgroup \(H\)
- Finite extensions are algebraic
- The compositum of Galois extensions \(E/k\) and \(F/k\) with \(E\cap F=k\) is Galois with \(G(EF/k)\cong G(E/k)\times G(F/k)\)
- The torsion submodule of a module over an integral domain
- Representations of a finite \(p\)-group on a vector space over a finite field of characteristic \(p\)
- Irreducible representations of \(\SO(2)\) and \(\SO(3)\)
- Groups of prime order are cyclic
- A nilpotent operator is diagonalizable iff it is zero
- Conjugacy classes in \(\mathrm{GL}_2(\CC)\)
- Matrix algebra
- Homomorphisms from \(S_n\) to a group of odd order
- A polynomial over \(\QQ\) with Galois group \(S_n\), in particular \(S_7\)
- Maschke’s theorem
- Example of a UFD that is not a Euclidean domain
- Jordan canonical form over a non-algebraically closed field
- No simple group of order \(pq^k\) when \(k\) is least with \(p\mid q^k-1\)
- The radical of an ideal is the intersection of the primes containing it
- An irreducible in \(\FF_p[x]\) divides \(x^{p^n}-x\) iff its degree divides \(n\)
- The stabilizer of a point under a group action is a subgroup
- An element of a commutative ring is noninvertible if and only if it lies in a maximal ideal
- In characteristic \(p\), an irreducible polynomial is \(g(x^{p^e})\) with \(g\) separable, and every root has multiplicity \(p^e\)
- The group algebra over \(\CC\) versus other fields, and when the characteristic divides \(|G|\)
- A cyclic permutation of a basis is diagonalizable with minimal polynomial \(x^n-1\)
- A basis of \(V\) yields a basis of \(V^{\oplus m}\)
- Intermediate fields of a \(D_8\)-extension with \(E/F\) and \(K/E\) Galois but \(K/F\) not Galois
- \(\Aut(S_n)=\Inn(S_n)\) for \(n\neq 6\)
- Group action, orbit, stabilizer, and fixed points
- Galois group of \(x^n-1\) over \(\QQ\)
- Regular representation
- The center of \(S_n\) is trivial for \(n\geq 4\)
- Nilpotent groups are solvable
- Galois group of \(x^2+9\)
- A \(p\)-group acting on a set of cardinality not divisible by \(p\) has a fixed point
- The cyclotomic extension \(\QQ(\zeta_{43})/\QQ\) has Galois group \(\ZZ_{42}\)
- Classification of groups of order \(4\), and which arise as Galois groups over \(\mathbb{Q}\)
- \(\Out(A_4)\) is nontrivial
- Maximal subgroups of a \(p\)-group have index \(p\)
- No simple group of order \(40\)
- Galois group of \(x^7-3\)
- Structure theorem for simple rings
- \(|\mathrm{GL}_2(\FF_q)|\) and its representations
- Subgroups of finitely generated free abelian groups and of free groups
- Lagrange’s theorem
- Character table of \(S_5\)
- \(x^{p^n}-x\) is the product of monic irreducibles in \(\FF_p[x]\) of degree dividing \(n\)
- Galois group of a finite field
- Classification of groups of order \(12\)
- A finite separable splitting field \(L/K\) has \([L:K]=|\gal(L/K)|\)
- \([A_n,A_n]=A_n\) for \(n\geq 5\)
- Field homomorphisms from \(\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)\) into \(\mathbb{C}\), \(\mathbb{R}\), and \(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}\) for a root \(\alpha\) of \(x^{17}-2\)
- \(\GF(p^d)\subseteq\GF(p^n)\) iff \(d\) divides \(n\)
- Eigenspaces of commuting matrices
- Schur’s lemma: endomorphisms of a simple module are zero or isomorphisms
- Whether an integral domain must be a PID if every finitely generated module is a direct sum of cyclic modules
- Invariant factors from the elementary divisors \((x-1)^3\), \((x-1)\), \((x^2+1)^4\), \((x^2+1)^2\), \((x^2+1)^2\), and \((x+2)\)
- An irreducible polynomial of degree \(p\) over \(\FF_p\) for each prime \(p\)
- Rank-nullity over division rings, and left inverses of rectangular matrices
- \([\QQ(\zeta+\zeta^{-1}):\QQ]=\varphi(n)/2\) for a primitive \(n\)th root of unity \(\zeta\)
- \([A_4,A_4]\cong\ZZ_2^2\)
- Unit quaternions and \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\)
- Stabilizer of a point in the unit disk under conformal automorphisms
- A single Jordan block of size \(6\) for \(T\) with \(p_T(x)=\chi_T(x)=x^6\)
- Whether \(L^1\) has a natural multiplication making it an algebra
- The ring of arithmetic functions under Dirichlet convolution
- Neither diagonalizable nor invertible implies the other
- Radical of an ideal
- The minimal polynomial over \(L\) divides the minimal polynomial over \(F\)
- Groups of order \(p^2\)
- The derived series, the commutator, and two theorems on derived series
- An ideal maximal among annihilators of nonzero elements of an \(R\)-module is prime
- Radical ideals in \(\ZZ\)
- Real division algebras
- Galois group \(D_6\) and intermediate fields of \(\QQ(\sqrt[3]{2},\sqrt{3},\zeta_3)/\QQ\)
- Abelianness of Galois groups is not transitive
- \(\langle 2,x\rangle\) is not principal in \(\ZZ[x]\)
- Structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID: invariant factors and elementary divisors
- Root bounds for polynomials over division rings
- Stabilizer subgroups of two points in a \(G\)-set are conjugate
- Proper subgroups of a group of order \(pq\) are cyclic
- Cayley-Hamilton theorem
- An ideal containing a unit is the whole ring
- Intermediate fields of \(\QQ(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{3})\) and \(\QQ(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3})\)
- Conjugacy classes in \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\RR)\)
- A matrix is diagonalizable iff all elementary divisors are linear
- Groups of order \(pqr\) have a normal Sylow subgroup
- Symmetry groups of the tetrahedron, cube, and icosahedron
- Every nonzero homomorphism from a field is injective, and whether the same holds for domains
- Kummer extension
- The Sylow theorems
- Character table of \(A_4\)
- Character orthogonality and detecting irreducible constituents
- Galois-group conditions implied by irreducibility of a polynomial, and by a root in the base field
- \(S_n\) is generated by transpositions
- \(IS\) is a submodule of \(A\)
- \(\Aut((\ZZ/p)^n)\) as a matrix group
- Algebraic closure
- When the Galois group of a polynomial is contained in \(A_n\)
- Quadratic extensions in characteristic 0 are Galois; stacked quadratics need not be
- Fundamental theorem of Galois theory, and the splitting field of \(x^5-2\)
- \(R^n/\im A\) is torsion iff \(\operatorname{rank} A=n\) iff the Smith form of \(A\) has \(n\) nonzero invariant factors
- Eigenvector \([0,1,0]^t\), rank, and diagonalizability of \(\begin{pmatrix}1&0&x\\0&1&0\\y&0&1\end{pmatrix}\)
- No simple group of order \(160\), and the structure of groups of that order
- The radical of an ideal is an ideal, and \(I(Z(I))=\sqrt{I}\)
- \(n_p=1\) when \(n_p\mid q<p\)
- Equality of the number of conjugacy classes and the number of irreducible representations of a finite group
- Maximal real subfield of \(\QQ(\zeta_n)\)
- Algebraically closed field
- A polynomial with Galois group \(\ZZ/3\ZZ\)
- \(4\times 4\) Jordan forms with minimal polynomial \((x-1)(x-2)^2\)
- Abelian groups of order 9, and groups of order 27