Written Assignment No. 2

as corrected in class on Oct. 10

due October 14, 2005

General Directions: Written assignments should be submitted typeset. What you submit must represent your own work.

Assigned Exercises

Read these directions carefully: for each of the following statements either provide a proof that the statement is true or label the statement as false and provide justification.

  1. Any group homomorphism phi : G --> G' where |G| is a prime must either be the trivial homomorphism or else be an injective (one-to-one) map.

  2. For any groups G, G', any subgroup H of G, any group homomorphism phi : G --> G', and any element a \in G one always has the equality of sets

     {x \in G | phi(x)  =  phi(a)}   =   Ha     .