Difference between revisions of "Cyclic group"
BRichtigen (talk | contribs) (New page: A group ''G'' is '''cyclic''' if it is generated by a single element <math>a \in G</math>, i.e., <math>G = \{a^n, n \in \mathbb{Z} \}</math>. Every cyclic group is...) |
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A group G is cyclic if it is generated by a single element Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a \in G} , i.e., Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle G = \{a^n, n \in \mathbb{Z} \}} .
Every cyclic group is commutative. Any group with a prime number of elements is cyclic. A cyclic group is either isomorphic to Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{Z}} , or tp Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}} for some Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \in \mathbb{N}} .