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Elementary Abelian Group
In mathematics, specifically in group theory, an elementary abelian group is an abelian group in which all elements other than the identity have the same order. This common order must be a prime number, and the elementary abelian groups in which the common order is ''p'' are a particular kind of ''p''-group. A group for which ''p'' = 2 (that is, an elementary abelian 2-group) is sometimes called a Boolean group. Every elementary abelian ''p''-group is a vector space over the prime field with ''p'' elements, and conversely every such vector space is an elementary abelian group. By the classification of finitely generated abelian groups, or by the fact that every vector space has a basis, every finite elementary abelian group must be of the form (Z/''p''Z)''n'' for ''n'' a non-negative integer (sometimes called the group's ''rank''). Here, Z/''p''Z denotes the cyclic group of order ''p'' (or equivalently the integers mod ''p''), and the superscript notation means the ''n''-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presentation Of A Group
In mathematics, a presentation is one method of specifying a group. A presentation of a group ''G'' comprises a set ''S'' of generators—so that every element of the group can be written as a product of powers of some of these generators—and a set ''R'' of relations among those generators. We then say ''G'' has presentation :\langle S \mid R\rangle. Informally, ''G'' has the above presentation if it is the "freest group" generated by ''S'' subject only to the relations ''R''. Formally, the group ''G'' is said to have the above presentation if it is isomorphic to the quotient of a free group on ''S'' by the normal subgroup generated by the relations ''R''. As a simple example, the cyclic group of order ''n'' has the presentation :\langle a \mid a^n = 1\rangle, where 1 is the group identity. This may be written equivalently as :\langle a \mid a^n\rangle, thanks to the convention that terms that do not include an equals sign are taken to be equal to the group identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abelian Group Theory
Abelian may refer to: Mathematics Group theory * Abelian group, a group in which the binary operation is commutative ** Category of abelian groups (Ab), has abelian groups as objects and group homomorphisms as morphisms * Metabelian group, a group where the commutator subgroup is abelian * Abelianisation Topology and number theory * Abelian variety, a complex torus that can be embedded into projective space * Abelian surface, a two-dimensional abelian variety * Abelian function, a meromorphic function on an abelian variety * Abelian integral, a function related to the indefinite integral of a differential of the first kind Other mathematics * Abelian category, in category theory, a preabelian category in which every monomorphism is a kernel and every epimorphism is a cokernel * Abelian and Tauberian theorems, in real analysis, used in the summation of divergent series * Abelian extension, in Galois theory, a field extension for which the associated Galois group is abelian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamming Space
In statistics and coding theory, a Hamming space is usually the set of all 2^N binary strings of length ''N'', where different binary strings are considered to be ''adjacent'' when they differ only in one position. The total distance between any two binary strings is then the total number of positions at which the corresponding bits are different, called the Hamming distance. Hamming spaces are named after American mathematician Richard Hamming, who introduced the concept in 1950. They are used in the theory of coding signals and transmission. More generally, a Hamming space can be defined over any alphabet (set) ''Q'' as the set of words of a fixed length ''N'' with letters from ''Q''.Cohen et al., ''Covering Codes'', p. 15 If ''Q'' is a finite field, then a Hamming space over ''Q'' is an ''N''-dimensional vector space over ''Q''. In the typical, binary case, the field is thus GF(2) (also denoted by Z2). In coding theory, if ''Q'' has ''q'' elements, then any subset ''C'' (u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elementary Group
In algebra, more specifically group theory, a ''p''-elementary group is a direct product of a finite cyclic group of order relatively prime to ''p'' and a ''p''-group. A finite group is an elementary group if it is ''p''-elementary for some prime number ''p''. An elementary group is nilpotent. Brauer's theorem on induced characters states that a character on a finite group is a linear combination with integer coefficients of characters induced from elementary subgroups. More generally, a finite group ''G'' is called a ''p''-hyperelementary if it has the extension :1 \longrightarrow C \longrightarrow G \longrightarrow P \longrightarrow 1 where C is cyclic of order prime to ''p'' and ''P'' is a ''p''-group. Not every hyperelementary group is elementary: for instance the non-abelian group of order 6 is 2-hyperelementary, but not 2-elementary. See also * Elementary abelian group In mathematics, specifically in group theory, an elementary abelian group is an abelian group in whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heisenberg Group
In mathematics, the Heisenberg group H, named after Werner Heisenberg, is the group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form : \begin 1 & a & c\\ 0 & 1 & b\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ \end under the operation of matrix multiplication. Elements ''a, b'' and ''c'' can be taken from any commutative ring with identity, often taken to be the ring of real numbers (resulting in the "continuous Heisenberg group") or the ring of integers (resulting in the "discrete Heisenberg group"). The continuous Heisenberg group arises in the description of one-dimensional quantum mechanical systems, especially in the context of the Stone–von Neumann theorem. More generally, one can consider Heisenberg groups associated to ''n''-dimensional systems, and most generally, to any symplectic vector space. Three-dimensional case In the three-dimensional case, the product of two Heisenberg matrices is given by : \begin 1 & a & c\\ 0 & 1 & b\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ \end \begin 1 & a' & c'\\ 0 & 1 & b'\\ 0 & 0 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extra Special Group
In group theory, a branch of abstract algebra, extraspecial groups are analogues of the Heisenberg group over finite fields whose size is a prime. For each prime ''p'' and positive integer ''n'' there are exactly two (up to isomorphism) extraspecial groups of order ''p''1+2''n''. Extraspecial groups often occur in centralizers of involutions. The ordinary character theory of extraspecial groups is well understood. Definition Recall that a finite group is called a ''p''-group if its order is a power of a prime ''p''. A ''p''-group ''G'' is called extraspecial if its center ''Z'' is cyclic of order ''p'', and the quotient ''G''/''Z'' is a non-trivial elementary abelian ''p''-group. Extraspecial groups of order ''p''1+2''n'' are often denoted by the symbol ''p''1+2''n''. For example, 21+24 stands for an extraspecial group of order 225. Classification Every extraspecial ''p''-group has order ''p''1+2''n'' for some positive integer ''n'', and conversely for each such number t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Center
In abstract algebra, the center of a group is the set of elements that commute with every element of . It is denoted , from German '' Zentrum,'' meaning ''center''. In set-builder notation, :. The center is a normal subgroup, Z(G)\triangleleft G, and also a characteristic subgroup, but is not necessarily fully characteristic. The quotient group, , is isomorphic to the inner automorphism group, . A group is abelian if and only if . At the other extreme, a group is said to be centerless if is trivial; i.e., consists only of the identity element. The elements of the center are central elements. As a subgroup The center of ''G'' is always a subgroup of . In particular: # contains the identity element of , because it commutes with every element of , by definition: , where is the identity; # If and are in , then so is , by associativity: for each ; i.e., is closed; # If is in , then so is as, for all in , commutes with : . Furthermore, the center of is always ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Action (mathematics)
In mathematics, a group action of a group G on a set (mathematics), set S is a group homomorphism from G to some group (under function composition) of functions from S to itself. It is said that G acts on S. Many sets of transformation (function), transformations form a group (mathematics), group under function composition; for example, the rotation (mathematics), rotations around a point in the plane. It is often useful to consider the group as an abstract group, and to say that one has a group action of the abstract group that consists of performing the transformations of the group of transformations. The reason for distinguishing the group from the transformations is that, generally, a group of transformations of a mathematical structure, structure acts also on various related structures; for example, the above rotation group also acts on triangles by transforming triangles into triangles. If a group acts on a structure, it will usually also act on objects built from that st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Linear Group
In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of n\times n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication. This forms a group, because the product of two invertible matrices is again invertible, and the inverse of an invertible matrix is invertible, with the identity matrix as the identity element of the group. The group is so named because the columns (and also the rows) of an invertible matrix are linearly independent, hence the vectors/points they define are in general linear position, and matrices in the general linear group take points in general linear position to points in general linear position. To be more precise, it is necessary to specify what kind of objects may appear in the entries of the matrix. For example, the general linear group over \R (the set of real numbers) is the group of n\times n invertible matrices of real numbers, and is denoted by \operatorname_n(\R) or \operatorname(n,\R). More generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automorphism
In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself. It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure. The set of all automorphisms of an object forms a group, called the automorphism group. It is, loosely speaking, the symmetry group of the object. Definition In an algebraic structure such as a group, a ring, or vector space, an ''automorphism'' is simply a bijective homomorphism of an object into itself. (The definition of a homomorphism depends on the type of algebraic structure; see, for example, group homomorphism, ring homomorphism, and linear operator.) More generally, for an object in some category, an automorphism is a morphism of the object to itself that has an inverse morphism; that is, a morphism f: X\to X is an automorphism if there is a morphism g: X\to X such that g\circ f= f\circ g = \operatorname _X, where \operatorname _X is the identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endomorphism
In mathematics, an endomorphism is a morphism from a mathematical object to itself. An endomorphism that is also an isomorphism is an automorphism. For example, an endomorphism of a vector space is a linear map , and an endomorphism of a group is a group homomorphism . In general, we can talk about endomorphisms in any category. In the category of sets, endomorphisms are functions from a set ''S'' to itself. In any category, the composition of any two endomorphisms of is again an endomorphism of . It follows that the set of all endomorphisms of forms a monoid, the full transformation monoid, and denoted (or to emphasize the category ). Automorphisms An invertible endomorphism of is called an automorphism. The set of all automorphisms is a subset of with a group structure, called the automorphism group of and denoted . In the following diagram, the arrows denote implication: Endomorphism rings Any two endomorphisms of an abelian group, , can be ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
