Date of Award
5-1967
Degree Type
Report
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mathematics and Statistics
Committee Chair(s)
E. E. Underwood
Committee
E. E. Underwood
Abstract
The purpose of this paper will be to pre sent detailed proofs to selected theorems and to give solutions to various exercises. The proofs for some theorems not directly related to topics under discussion will be omitted and will be denoted with letters rather than being numbered.
The first portion of the paper discusses transformations and subgroups. However, many basic definitions and theorems will not be stated for example definition of a group, subgroup, normal subgroup, factor group, etc. Topics to be emphasized include centralizer, center, and normalizer of a group, characteristic subgroups, conjugacy and commutator.
In the second part of the paper direct sums are discussed with the ultimate proof of the famous Remak-Krull-Schmidt Theorem.
Recommended Citation
Ott, Melvin L., "Transformations, Subgroups and Direct Sums in Group Theory" (1967). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 1114.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1114
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