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There are infinitely many prime numbers. Indeed, for any finite list of prime numbers $p_1,\dots ,p_k$, the integer $N=p_1\cdots p_k+1>1$ has a prime factor, by the Fundamental theorem of arithmetic. None of the listed prime numbers divides $N$, since each divides $N-1$ and a common divisor would divide $1$. Thus no finite list contains all prime numbers. The constructed $N$ need not itself be a prime number.

An odd prime is a prime number that is an odd integer. The only even number that is a prime number is $2$, since every other positive even number has $2$ as a proper divisor. Thus every prime number greater than $2$ is an odd prime. There are infinitely many odd primes, by Euclid's theorem.

Set $p_{-2}=0,p_{-1}=1,q_{-2}=1,q_{-1}=0$ and define the continued fraction convergents byThe recurrence reverses the sign of $p_n{q}_{n-1}-p_{n-1}{q}_n$, whose initial value at $n=0$ is $-1$. Hence $p_n{q}_{n-1}-p_{n-1}{q}_n=(-1{)}^{n-1}$. Every common divisor of $p_n,q_n$ divides this number, proving $\boxed{\gcd (p_n,q_n)=1}$.

Conjugation by $P$ partitions $H$ into orbits. Each non-singleton orbit has size divisible by $p$, by the orbit-stabilizer theorem. The singleton orbits are exactly $H\cap Z(P)$. Since $|H|$ is divisible by $p$, $|H\cap Z(P)|\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}p)$. This set contains $1$, so $\boxed{|H\cap Z(P)|\ge p}$.

For the deduction we also give the representation-theoretic ingredient behind Burnside's theorem: a nonabelian finite simple group has no nontrivial conjugacy class of prime power size. Here is a proof, so no stronger theorem is being assumed without justification. Suppose $g\ne 1$ has class size $p^b$. For an irreducible character $\chi$ of degree $d$ coprime to $p$, the class sum acts as the scalar $p^b\chi (g)/d$, which is an algebraic integer: the class sum has an integer-entry matrix in the regular representation, which contains every irreducible representation, so this scalar is an eigenvalue of an integer-entry matrix. Also $\chi (g)$ is an algebraic integer. Bezout's identity then makes $\chi (g)/d$ an algebraic integer. All its algebraic conjugates have modulus at most $1$, because character values of a representation are sums of $d$ roots of unity. An algebraic integer with this property is zero or a root of unity: the monic polynomials of all its powers have uniformly bounded integer coefficients, so two powers must coincide unless it is zero.

Every nontrivial irreducible representation of a simple group is faithful. If $\chi (g)/d$ were a root of unity, equality in the triangle inequality would force its representing matrix to be scalar, hence $g$ central, impossible. Thus $\chi (g)=0$ whenever $p\nmid d$, except for the trivial character of a representation. Orthogonality of the identity column and the $g$ column in the character table now givesThis would make $1/p$ an algebraic integer, contradicting the fact that rational algebraic integers are integers. The same proof covers class size $1$ directly through triviality of the center.

If an abelian subgroup $A$ had index $p^a$, every $g\in A\setminus \{1\}$ would have $A\subseteq C_G(g)$, making its class size a divisor of $p^a$, a contradiction. Such a $g$ exists: if $A=1$, then $G$ is a nontrivial p-group, whose center is nontrivial by the first argument with $H=P$. Therefore a nonabelian simple group has no abelian subgroup of prime power index.

Identify a binary word with its coefficient polynomial in $R={\mathbb{F}}_2[X]/(X^7-1)$. A cyclic code is exactly an ideal of $R$: closure under multiplication by $X$ is closure under cyclic shift. Its inverse image in the principal ideal domain ${\mathbb{F}}_2[X]$ has a unique monic generator polynomial of a cyclic code $g$ dividing $X^7-1$. PutThe cubics have no root in ${\mathbb{F}}_2$, hence are irreducible polynomials. The eight monic divisors yield all binary cyclic codes of length seven. A code generated by $g$ has basis $g,Xg,\dots ,X^{6-\mathrm{deg}g}g$ and dimension $7-\mathrm{deg}g$, with the zero code treated separately.

For the dual of a cyclic code, let $h=(X^7-1)/g$. Orthogonality of coefficient vectors to all cyclic shifts gives the generator $h^{\ast }(X)=X^{\mathrm{deg}h}h(X^{-1})$. Here $a^{\ast }=a,b^{\ast }=c,c^{\ast }=b$. Thus the complete pairing, with the respective dimensions, isThese are respectively the whole-space/zero, even-weight/repetition, and two Hamming code/binary simplex code pairs. The reciprocal formula follows because the product of a word polynomial and the reversed polynomial of an orthogonal word has zero coefficients in all cyclic positions; the resulting inclusion has the correct complementary dimension, hence is equality.

Write an integral binary quadratic form as $Q(u,v)=A{u}^2+Buv+C{v}^2$, with discriminant of a binary quadratic form $d=B^2-4AC$. If $Q(u,v)=p$ is prime, then $\gcd (u,v)=1$: any common divisor would have its square dividing $p$. Complete $(u,v)$ to a matrix in ${\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ using Bezout identity. After the associated integral change of variables, the properly equivalent form has leading coefficient $p$, say $[p,b,c]$. Its discriminant of a binary quadratic form gives $d=b^2-4pc$, hence $b^2\equiv d(\mathrm{mod}p)$.

Conversely suppose $b_0^2\equiv d(\mathrm{mod}p)$. Since $d$ is an integral-form discriminant of a binary quadratic form, $d\equiv 0$ or $1(\mathrm{mod}4)$. Choose $b\equiv b_0(\mathrm{mod}p)$ with even integer parity for $d\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}4)$ and odd integer parity for $d\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}4)$. This is possible because $p$ is odd. Then $b^2-d$ is divisible by $4p$, andis an integral form of discriminant of a binary quadratic form $d$ representing $p=Q(1,0)$. This proves the discriminant criterion for prime representation by a binary quadratic form, including the case $p\mid d$; no assumption that $d$ is a fundamental discriminant was used.