The order of a cyclic group is the number of distinct elements in the group. It is also the smallest power, k, such that xk = i for all elements x in the group (i is the identity).
Yes, every subgroup of a cyclic group is cyclic because every subgroup is a group.
Yes. The only group of order 1 is the trivial group containing only the identity element. All groups of orders 2 or 3 are cyclic since 2 and 3 are both prime numbers. Therefore, any group of order less than or equal to four must be a cyclic group.
There's a theorem to the effect that every group of prime order is cyclic. Since 5 is prime, the assertion in the question follows from the said theorem.
A cyclic group of order two looks like this.It has two elements e and x such that ex = xe = x and e2 = x2 = e.So it is clear how it relates to the identity.In a cyclic group of order 2, every element is its own inverse.
every abelian group is not cyclic. e.g, set of (Q,+) it is an abelian group but not cyclic.
Four of them.
There are two: the cyclic group (C10) and the dihedral group (D10).
By LaGrange's Thm., the order of an element of a group must divide the order of the group. Since 3 is prime, up to isomorphism, the only group of order three is {1,x,x^2} where x^3=1. Note that this is a finite cyclic group. Since all cyclic groups are abelian, because they can be modeled by addition mod an integer, the group of order 3 is abelian.
A cyclic group, by definition, has only one generator. An example of an infinite cyclic group is the integers with addition. This group is generated by 1.
An element ( g ) of a group ( G ) has order ( n ) if the smallest positive integer ( k ) such that ( g^k = e ) (the identity element) is ( n ). This means the powers of ( g ) generate the set ( { e, g, g^2, \ldots, g^{n-1} } ), which contains ( n ) distinct elements. Therefore, the cyclic group generated by ( g ), denoted ( \langle g \rangle ), has exactly ( n ) elements, thus it is a cyclic group of order ( n ). Conversely, if ( \langle g \rangle ) is a cyclic group of order ( n ), then ( g ) must also have order ( n ) since ( g^n = e ) is the first occurrence of the identity.
In group theory, there is exactly one group of order 5, which is the cyclic group ( \mathbb{Z}/5\mathbb{Z} ). This is because 5 is a prime number, and any group of prime order is cyclic and isomorphic to the integers modulo that prime. Therefore, up to isomorphism, there is only one group with 5 elements.
Lagrange theorem states that the order of any subgroup of a group G must divide order of the group G. If order p of the group G is prime the only divisors are 1 and p, therefore the only subgroups of G are {e} and G itself. Take any a not equal e. Then the set of all integer powers of a is by definition a cyclic subgroup of G, but the only subgroup of G with more then 1 element is G itself, therefore G is cyclic. QED.