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Past exam of the rings and modules course of the University of Oxford 2021 3 a Solution by
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The exact orders printed in the question are inconsistent. The source PDF says that the orders of group elements are , respectively, and also imposes . Multiplying this relation by and using gives . Since also holds, subtracting gives , contradicting the stated order of a group element . Thus
The natural abelian group presentation interpretation is to impose the relations and , with no further relations, without requiring the orders of the images of the generators to stay . Under this interpretation the calculation is as follows. Since follows from , the mixed relation gives . Consequently , and together with this gives . Conversely, , , and imply every original relation. Eliminating leaves two independent cyclic groups:To verify that these relations force no further identifications, map to in . All defining relations hold, and the inverse group homomorphism sends the two standard generators to . These group homomorphisms are mutually inverse. The divisibility condition gives the requested invariant factors of a finitely generated module over . In this presented group, actually have orders .
Equivalently, the relation matrixhas nonzero Smith normal form entries , with the trivial factor omitted. The displayed direct sum of modules is the answer to the presentation interpretation; the inconsistency of the literal exact-order formulation remains.
Past exam of the rings and modules course of the University of Oxford 2021 2 d Solution by
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Assume is a finitely generated module. The restriction is a surjective module homomorphism, so part (a)(i) makes a finitely generated module.
The free module has its finite standard basis of a module. Its quotient module is therefore a finitely generated module by part (a)(i). Part (c) transfers this property to the isomorphic quotient module . Finally apply part (a)(ii) to the submodule . It follows thatMore concretely, take the images under of finitely many generators of , and adjoin lifts in of finitely many generators of . This finite list generates . The argument shows why finite presentation of a module is independent of the chosen finite generating set of a module.
Past exam of the rings and modules course of the University of Oxford 2021 2 c Solution by
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Put , , and . The kernel of a module homomorphism is a submodule, so its image is a submodule. For , , showing . Thus the quotient module exists. Also .
Consider the restriction to of the natural module homomorphism :Its kernel of a module homomorphism is . We have . Conversely, if , choose with . Thenso and . Hence .
The map is surjective. Given , use the surjectivity of to choose with . Set . ThenThus is a preimage of the arbitrary class .
By the first isomorphism theorem for modules, induces the module isomorphismExplicitly, replacing by with leaves its class modulo unchanged, proving well-definedness. Its formula preserves addition and scalar multiplication. If its value is zero, , so , proving injectivity; surjectivity was proved above. These checks give all the requested properties of the induced map.
Past exam of the rings and modules course of the University of Oxford 2021 2 b Solution by
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Let denote the standard basis of a module of the free module . Since the module homomorphism is surjective, choose such that for each . DefineUniqueness of coordinates in a basis of a module makes this well-defined, and the formula preserves addition and scalar multiplication, so is a module homomorphism. For every ,Thus . This is the lifting property of a free module; only the surjectivity of is needed for this part.
Past exam of the random matrix theory course of the University of Oxford 2025 3 d Solution by
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- Generate an -by- real matrix with independent entries having the standard normal distribution.
- Compute a QR decomposition with an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix.
- Put and return . Then with having strictly positive diagonal.
The matrix is invertible almost surely. Indeed, successively sampled Gaussian columns have probability zero of lying in the proper linear subspace spanned by the previous columns. Thus the diagonal signs used above exist with probability one. Equivalently, apply the Gram-Schmidt process to the columns, always dividing each residual by its positive Euclidean norm; this produces directly.
To prove uniformity, fix . Each column of has density proportional to , so orthogonal transformations preserve its probability distribution. Column independence therefore gives .
The QR decomposition with positive diagonal is unique: if , then is both an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix, hence diagonal with entries . Its diagonal entries are positive, so it is the identity. It follows that the orthogonal factor of is . ThereforeBy uniqueness of normalized Haar measure on the compact group , the returned matrix has exactly the required probability distribution. Reflection invariance gives each determinant sign probability , so the algorithm samples both components of the orthogonal group. The positive-diagonal correction is essential when a numerical QR decomposition chooses its own signs.
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