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Section Day 8

This is an outline of the topics we covered in the eighth day of class. The skeleton notes are in a handout, which can be printed out using the printer icon at the top right of its section of the page for filling in during class. Filled notes for each day will be posted after class to Canvas.

Handout Thursday 6/11

Algebraist of the Day.

Jean-Pierre Serre, 1926-present

Reminders/Announcements.

Example 89. Semidirect Products Continued.

Note 90. Normality and Subgroup Lattices.

Subgroup lattice of D_4

Definition 91. Quotient Group.

Let \(G\) be a group and \(H\normaleq G\text{.}\) Then
\begin{equation*} G/H = \{aH\mid a \in G\}=\{Ha \mid a \in G\} \end{equation*}
is a group under the operation
\begin{equation*} (Ha)(Hb)=H(ab) \end{equation*}
called the quotient of \(G\) by \(H\).

Example 92. Quotient of \(\Z_6\) by \(\subgroup{2}\).

Example 93. Quotient of \(A_4\) by \(\subgroup{(12)(34),(13)(24)}\).

Example 94. Cannot Quotient \(D_3\) by \(\subgroup{f}\).