A group action of on is a map such that and . The orbit and stabilizer of are
For a finite group, the map
is a well-defined bijection from the left cosets of to . Each coset has elements, so the orbit-stabilizer theorem is
The Cauchy theorem for groups says that if a prime number divides , then has an element of order . To prove it, let
The first entries determine the last, so , which is divisible by . The cyclic group acts on by cyclically rotating the entries; rotation preserves the product condition because
Every orbit has size one or . The fixed points are exactly the tuples with . Their number is therefore divisible by . Since the identity gives one fixed point, there is another, and its entry has order .
Now let . Cauchy's theorem gives a subgroup of order . Let act by the conjugation action on the set of subgroups of order . It fixes . If it also fixed , then would normalize ; since , the product would be a subgroup of order , which is impossible. Every other -orbit in therefore has size , so
Distinct members of share only the identity and each contributes ten nonidentity elements. Hence , forcing . Thus is a normal subgroup.
Conjugation now defines a group homomorphism
Because , its automorphism group has order . By the Lagrange theorem, the image has order dividing both and , so the image is trivial and lies in the center of . Cauchy's theorem also supplies of order . If generates , then and commute and has order . Therefore
Use as the parameter of the smooth curve:
Its velocity vector and speed are
The unit tangent vector is therefore
The parameter-independent formula for the curvature of a space curve gives
Differentiating,
Hence increases for and decreases for . Its global maximum occurs at and equals
The corresponding point is
Set
Because the region lies in the positive quadrant, its four inequalities become
Thus this change of variables sends to a rectangle in the -plane. Its Jacobian determinant is
so
Since , the double integral is
A group is abelian when for every . It is cyclic when some generator of a group satisfies
If and belong to a cyclic group, then
so every cyclic group is abelian.
The Klein four-group is abelian, but every nonidentity element has order two, so no element generates all four elements. Thus an abelian group need not be cyclic.
The condition on proper subgroups does not force to be abelian. The quaternion group
is nonabelian because whereas . Its proper subgroups are the trivial subgroup, , and the three cyclic subgroups
each of order four. They are all cyclic, so
The order of a group element is the least positive integer such that , where is the identity element; its order is infinite if no such exists.
Let have finite order . A group homomorphism preserves the group operation and the identity, so
The order of an element divides every positive exponent that gives the identity. Hence
If is a surjective function and has order , choose with . The first result gives , where . The element
then has order , because the order of is .
A group homomorphism is determined by the image of a generator of the cyclic group , and that image must have order dividing . In the symmetric group , the only such elements are the identity and the three-cycles. There are
three-cycles. Therefore the number of homomorphisms is
On the part with , write
This is the upper portion of a hyperboloid of one sheet. Choosing the outward orientation, whose normal points radially away from the -axis, the vector area element is
Its radial component is positive and its vertical component is negative. Reversing the normal reverses all the fluxes below.
For
the curl is
On the surface, , and therefore
Direct integration gives
To verify this with the Stokes theorem, note that on a circle of fixed ,
The induced boundary orientation runs in the negative direction on the top circle and the positive direction on the bottom circle. Hence
For , Stokes' theorem again reduces the flux to its two boundary circles. The outward orientation gives positive direction at , where , and negative direction at , where . Thus

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