Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications · Problem 11.7.2

Matrix Groups and Symmetry — Thomas Judson

Mathematics — Abstract Algebra · sage-direct-product-homomorphisms

Problem

The four homomorphisms created by the direct product construction are each an example of a more general construction of homomorphisms involving groups GG, HH and G×HG \times H. By using the same groups as in the example in the previous subsection, see if you can discover and describe these constructions with exact definitions of the four homomorphisms in general. Your tools for investigating a Sage group homomorphism are limited; you might take each generator of the domain and see what its image is. Here is an example of the type of computation you might do repeatedly. We'll investigate the second homomorphism. The domain is the dihedral group, and we will compute the image of the first generator. \begin{verbatim} G = CyclicPermutationGroup(3) H = DihedralGroup(4) results = G.direct_product(H) phi = results[2] H.gens() ((1,2,3,4), (1,4)(2,3)) a = H.gen(0); a (1,2,3,4) phi(a) (4,5,6,7) \end{verbatim}

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