Groups of order seventy 2026-10-31
These are all the groups of group order up to group isomorphism, with denoting a dihedral group of order . The Sylow theorems make the Sylow subgroups of orders five and seven unique: the possible counts divide fourteen and ten, respectively, and only one has the required residue. These normal subgroups of coprime order commute, giving a normal subgroup . Cauchy's theorem for finite groups provides an element of order two outside , so .
The automorphism of a finite cyclic group defining this semidirect product is a unit modulo with . The Chinese remainder theorem makes its restrictions modulo five and seven independently or . The resulting exponents are , giving the four displayed groups in order. Their center of a group orders are , so no two are isomorphic. Every case exists as the specified semidirect product.
Put , the normal subgroup of order . By Cauchy's theorem for finite groups, contains an element of order two. Such an element cannot belong to the odd-order subgroup . Thus and , giving the semidirect productEvery automorphism of a finite cyclic group sends to for a unit modulo . The relation forces the conjugation action of to square to the identity:The Chinese remainder theorem identifies a congruence class modulo with its pair of classes modulo and . In each of these prime fields, the factorization forces or . The choices are independent, giving exactly four homomorphisms from a finite cyclic group . Explicitly,The factors and of are preserved by every automorphism, since each is its unique subgroup of that order. The four conjugation actions therefore give:
- : the action is trivial on both factors, so , by cyclicity of a product of two finite cyclic groups.
- : the action inverts both factors, so is the dihedral group .
- : it is the identity modulo and inversion modulo , so the factor commutes with the other factors and .
- : it is inversion modulo and the identity modulo , giving .
Here has group order , as in the paper. The center of a group distinguishes these four groups of order seventy: its orders are , respectively, so the four groups are pairwise nonisomorphic. Each construction is a semidirect product with elements, so every listed possibility occurs.