Abstract Algebra
Posted on April 2, 2019
Tags: linearalgebra
1 Cayley Theorem
- Lets define a group
- \(G = { a b c d e}\)
- Pick an element of that group let’s say \(c\).
Left multiply \(G\) by \(c\)
- \(cG = { ca cb cc cd ce}\)
- \(cG = { b e a c d}\)
- Notice the resulting multiplication just created a permutation of G.
- \(cG \in Perm(G)\)
- \(Perm(G)\) = Set containing different permutations of G including group G itself
- We can define the left multiplication of \(G\) as a higher order function
f
f :: G -> {G} -> Perm(G)
f(c) = cG
for our specific example- function f takes a group element (in our example \(c\)) and our Group G and returns a permutation of G.
- We can curry
f
tolambda x, f(x) :: {G} -> Perm(G)
- In abstract algebra this means that Group $G4 is isomorphic to a subgroup \(S_G\) which is termed the Permutation group.