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A free group of rank k clearly has subgroups of every rank less than k. Less obviously, a (nonabelian!) free group of rank at least 2 has subgroups of all countable ranks. The commutator subgroup of a free group of rank k > 1 has infinite rank; for example for F(a,b), it is freely generated by the commutators [a m, b n] for non-zero m and n.
In mathematics, the lattice of subgroups of a group is the lattice whose elements are the subgroups of , with the partial ordering being set inclusion. In this lattice, the join of two subgroups is the subgroup generated by their union , and the meet of two subgroups is their intersection .
The free group G = π 1 (X) has n = 2 generators corresponding to loops a,b from the base point P in X.The subgroup H of even-length words, with index e = [G : H] = 2, corresponds to the covering graph Y with two vertices corresponding to the cosets H and H' = aH = bH = a −1 H = b − 1 H, and two lifted edges for each of the original loop-edges a,b.
In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as group theory, the term Z-group refers to a number of distinct types of groups: in the study of finite groups, a Z-group is a finite group whose Sylow subgroups are all cyclic. in the study of infinite groups, a Z-group is a group which possesses a very general form of central series.
One of the non-abelian groups is the semidirect product of a normal cyclic subgroup of order p 2 by a cyclic group of order p. The other is the quaternion group for p = 2 and a group of exponent p for p > 2. Order p 4: The classification is complicated, and gets much harder as the exponent of p increases.
A proper subgroup of a group G is a subgroup H which is a proper subset of G (that is, H ≠ G). This is often represented notationally by H < G, read as "H is a proper subgroup of G". Some authors also exclude the trivial group from being proper (that is, H ≠ {e} ). [2] [3] If H is a subgroup of G, then G is sometimes called an overgroup of H.
The subgroup test provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a nonempty subset of a group to be a subgroup: it is sufficient to check that for all elements and in . Knowing a group's subgroups is important in understanding the group as a whole.
Hasse diagram of the lattice of subgroups of Z 2 3. The red squares mark the elements of the subsets as they appear in the Cayley table displayed below. There are Z 2 3 itself, seven Z 2 2, seven Z 2 and the trivial group.