The Fundamental theorem of Galois theory gives an inclusion-reversing bijection between subgroups and intermediate fields , by and , for a finite Galois extension. One has and . The field is Galois over exactly when is normal; then its Galois group is the quotient by .
Let and . The splitting field is . A splitting field in characteristic zero is normal and separable, hence Galois. Eisenstein criterion at gives . This field is real, whereas is not, and satisfies a quadratic polynomial. Thus . The faithful permutation action on the three roots identifies the Galois group with . The subgroup fixing is generated by the transposition interchanging the other two roots. Its conjugates are different transposition subgroups, so it is not normal.
A covering map is a continuous surjection for which each point has an open neighbourhood with a disjoint union of open sets, each mapped homeomorphically onto . A connected simply connected covering space is a universal cover.
There is a necessary connectedness qualification in the printed conclusion. Let be the path component of in . Then : one inclusion follows by projecting paths, and the other by lifting a path in from . Thus the asserted surjection onto all of requires to be path connected. Without it, take to be the identity of and to be two disjoint intervals; a selected component cannot cover both.
To prove the assertion about a component of a pulled-back universal cover, choose an evenly covered neighbourhood in . Local path connectedness of supplies a path-connected relatively open neighbourhood . Each inverse sheet over is path connected, so it lies wholly in or is disjoint from it. These sheets evenly cover under . Therefore is a covering map.
Under the classification of connected covering spaces, its subgroup consists of based loops in whose lifts close at . A loop viewed in closes in the universal cover exactly when its class in is trivial. Hence the subgroup is
Here , so the subgroup formula itself needs no change. Injectivity of the covering's induced fundamental-group map is the usual homotopy-lifting property.
A surjective inverse-polynomial germ projection without even covering comes from the inverse of over . Consider , with . Since on , each defines a holomorphic inverse germ of at . This identifies with a component of the space of germs of holomorphic functions: inverse germs continue along paths in , and the holomorphic identity persists under continuation. A germ with value cannot exist, because differentiating that identity would give . Since is connected, all its inverse germs belong to one complete analytic function.
The projection is surjective. A generic value has three distinct regular preimages; the critical values each retain a simple regular preimage, respectively , even after their double critical preimages are removed. Thus fibre size drops from to at these values, making an evenly covered neighbourhood impossible. This is surjective but not a regular topological covering.
If “regular” is specifically used for deck transitivity among genuine coverings, there is also a genuine nonnormal example. Remove the critical values from the base and all their preimages from the source:
This is a connected three-sheeted analytic covering. A small loop about each critical value swaps the two roots meeting there. The two swaps are distinct and generate (connectedness also forces transitive monodromy). The stabilizer of one sheet is an order- subgroup, which is not normal in . The classification of connected covering spaces therefore shows this covering is not regular in the deck-transitive sense. Either convention has a fully explicit example.
Conversely, assume is a normal subgroup and the quotient group is an abelian group. Commuting the two cosets and gives
so every group commutator belongs to . This proves the converse and completes the equivalence.
For the dihedral group of order ten, choose a rotation and a reflection with and . Its rotation subgroup is a normal subgroup, and the quotient by it has order two, hence is an abelian group. Consequently the commutator subgroup is contained in . On the other hand,
Since generates the order-five cyclic group , the commutator subgroup is exactly . Every abelian quotient must kill this subgroup. There are only two subgroups containing it, since the remaining quotient has prime order. The complete list, including the trivial quotient, is
This is the order-ten instance of the abelianization of an odd dihedral group.
Lagrange's theorem states that, for a finite group and a subgroup ,
To prove it, define an equivalence relation by when . Its classes are the left cosets , which therefore partition . Left multiplication by gives a bijection , so every coset has elements. Counting this partition gives the formula; in particular divides . Applying the theorem to the cyclic subgroup generated by an element shows that its order of a group element divides .
Write the given order-two normal subgroup as . Conjugation must preserve and cannot send its nonidentity element to the identity, so for all . Thus is in the center of a group: a normal subgroup of order two is central.
Choose . By Lagrange's theorem, its order of a group element is , or . It cannot have order two: since is central, the four distinct elements would form a subgroup of order four, whereas does not divide for odd . If has order , it already generates . Otherwise has order , commutes with , and implies . Hence both and divide , so has order . In either case
For a group action of a finite group on a set and a point , the orbit-stabilizer theorem is
where is the stabilizer subgroup. The map is well defined because elements of the same coset act identically on . If , then , so their cosets agree; every orbit point has the form , giving surjectivity. This is a bijection. Lagrange's theorem, for any subgroup , yields the counting formula.
Apply the conjugation action of the finite p-group to its nontrivial normal subgroup . Normality ensures the action stays inside . The singleton orbits of a group action are exactly the elements of . Every larger orbit of a group action has size a positive power of , by the orbit-stabilizer theorem and Lagrange's theorem. Therefore
Since is nontrivial, its order is divisible by . The intersection contains the identity and has cardinality a positive multiple of , so it contains a nonidentity element. This proves the central intersection property of normal subgroups of finite p-groups.
For the proper subgroup , let act by left multiplication on the left cosets . A coset is fixed by every exactly when . Both groups have the same finite size, so this inclusion is equality; the fixed cosets are precisely those with . Hence their number is . All non-singleton orbits of a group action have size divisible by , so
Since is proper, is a positive power of greater than one. The fixed-coset count is nonzero, because itself is fixed, and is divisible by . Therefore the normalizer strictly contains :
This is the normalizer condition for finite p-groups. The proof also covers , whose action fixes all cosets.
A smooth vector field on a smooth manifold is a smooth section of the tangent bundle: it assigns to each , smoothly in local coordinates. In a coordinate chart it has the form , with smooth coefficients . Equivalently, it acts on smooth functions as a derivation, .
For a Lie group , write for Left translation on a Lie group. A left-invariant vector field satisfies
Thus it is determined by its value at the identity. Given the printed , first translate it to the identity:
The unique left-invariant vector field with value at is
The smoothness of multiplication makes this a smooth vector field, the chain rule proves left invariance, and setting gives .
We prove the completeness of left-invariant vector fields: this left-invariant vector field is a complete vector field. The Picard-Lindelof theorem, applied in a local chart, gives a unique local integral curve of a vector field through . For every , the curve is an integral curve of a vector field through , because
Crucially, the same interval works for every initial point.
Let be the maximal integral curve of a vector field through , with maximal interval . If , choose with . The curve
exists on and agrees with on the overlap by uniqueness of the local ordinary differential equation. It extends past , a contradiction. The same argument at a finite excludes that possibility. Thus , and uniqueness on overlapping intervals gives uniqueness on all of .
After establishing completeness, uniqueness also gives the one-parameter subgroup law for the global curve through :
Both sides, as curves in , are integral curves of a vector field through at . Defining the Exponential map of a Lie group by , the answer is
The identity component is an open normal subgroup, and every open identity neighbourhood generates it. Let be the connected component of . The product of connected spaces is connected, so the image of under multiplication is connected and contains . It is therefore contained in . Inversion has the same property. Thus is a subgroup.
A smooth manifold is locally connected. In particular, a coordinate neighbourhood of can be chosen homeomorphic to an open ball, so there is a connected open neighbourhood of contained in . Its translates , , are open and lie in , and cover . Therefore the identity component of a Lie group is open in . Conjugation by any is a homeomorphism fixing , so it maps into itself; conjugation by gives the reverse inclusion. Hence is a normal subgroup.
If is an open neighbourhood of in , let , allowing inverses in the meaning of generated subgroup. For each , is open and lies in , so is open in . Every other left coset of is also open. Thus is both open and closed in the connected space . It is nonempty, so .
A quadratic form on is a function for a symmetric bilinear form . Equivalently, and the polarization
is a bilinear map. In coordinates there is a unique real symmetric matrix with . No assumption of nondegeneracy or positive definiteness is needed.
An element stabilizes when for every . By the polarization identity, this is equivalent to preserving , or in coordinates to
This is a closed Matrix Lie group. The Lie algebra of a quadratic-form stabilizer is
To prove necessity, differentiate along any smooth curve in with , . The derivative at zero is .
To prove sufficiency, suppose and consider the matrix exponential . Then
Its value at zero is , so for every real . This curve has derivative at zero, proving the claimed tangent space description even for a degenerate quadratic form.
Equivalently, the condition is for all . For a nondegenerate quadratic form it is the corresponding Special orthogonal Lie algebra. To see the degenerate case explicitly, choose a basis with
Writing , the condition becomes
while are arbitrary. Thus the nullspace of the quadratic form is invariant, but arbitrary infinitesimal maps into it are allowed. When , the formula correctly gives and .
A topological graph is a CW complex with only zero-dimensional and one-dimensional cells: its vertices form the zero-skeleton, and each edge is a copy of an open interval attached by its two endpoints to vertices, possibly the same vertex. It has the weak topology of a CW complex. A subgraph is a CW subcomplex, obtained by choosing vertices and edges and retaining the endpoints of every chosen edge. Loops and multiple edges are allowed.
A spanning tree is a connected spanning subgraph containing no cycle in a graph. To construct one in any connected topological graph , consider all acyclic spanning subgraphs, ordered by inclusion; the subgraph with every vertex and no edges is one. The union of a chain is still acyclic, since any cycle uses only finitely many edges and would already occur in a member of the chain. The Zorn lemma therefore gives a maximal such subgraph .
If were disconnected, a finite edge path in between vertices of two of its components would contain an edge joining different components. Adding that edge creates no cycle, contradicting maximality. Thus is a spanning tree. Fix a root vertex. Each point of has a unique finite path to the root; give every edge length one and move the point a fraction of the way along that path at time . This defines a contraction of a topological space of . On each closed edge times , the construction takes place in a finite tree and is continuous. Since the interval is a locally finite CW complex, the product with has the corresponding weak topology of a CW complex, so these restrictions establish continuity globally. Consequently
This argument includes infinite graphs and does not assume local finiteness of .
If is a covering map, take as the vertices upstairs. Each component of the inverse image of an open edge is an open interval mapping homeomorphically to that edge, because an interval is simply connected. Its parametrization lifts along the closed edge to attach its endpoints to lifted vertices, by path lifting theorem. Small star neighborhoods at vertices are lifted homeomorphically by the covering map, and give exactly the neighborhoods of the resulting topological graph. Thus the cell structure has the topology of the original covering space. The total space may be disconnected, but every component is a topological graph.
The Nielsen–Schreier formula is
For a proof, realize as the fundamental group of the wedge sum of circles. Construct its connected covering graph with vertices the right cosets , and an oriented edge labeled from to for each free generator . There is exactly one incoming and one outgoing edge of each label at every vertex, which establishes the local covering map property. Reading a word from ends at its coset, so the closed paths at give exactly the words in . The induced map of fundamental groups is injective by the homotopy lifting property of a covering map, and its image is .
For index , this covering graph has vertices and edges. A spanning tree in it has edges. The permitted rank formula for a finite connected graph now gives
In particular this proves both freeness and the index formula.
If and , then , so a proper finite-index subgroup cannot be isomorphic to . For , , and is a proper index- subgroup isomorphic to for every . Hence
Over or , a Lie algebra is a vector space with a bilinear map which is alternating and obeys the Jacobi identity:
Bilinearity and alternation imply .
For a Matrix Lie group, identify the tangent space with derivatives of smooth curves through . Product curves show that the sum of two such derivatives is again tangent, and reparametrization supplies scalar multiples. In particular this is a real vector space, even when the matrices have complex entries. For , choose a curve with . Conjugating a curve with derivative shows that
Differentiate this curve in the finite-dimensional vector space . The result is
The matrix commutator is bilinear and alternating, and expanding the six terms proves its Jacobi identity. Thus this construction gives the Lie algebra of a matrix Lie group, with the appropriate bracket, using actual group curves rather than an assumed commutator closure.
For the unitary group, differentiating gives . Conversely, if , then is unitary and is a curve with derivative . Consequently
This is the unitary Lie algebra. The diagonal entries are purely imaginary, contributing real parameters, and each upper off-diagonal entry contributes two real parameters. A matrix-unit basis of the unitary Lie algebra is
These anti-Hermitian matrix units and their combinations are linearly independent over and span every allowed entry.
The symplectic stabilizer is a subgroup: the identity preserves , and if and , then
Multiplying on the left by and on the right by gives . Products and inverses remain unitary. This is the compact symplectic group, often denoted or .
Differentiating the stabilizer equation gives . For , this says
Together with , these are equivalently
These conditions are also sufficient: is unitary, and
Hence it stays in the subgroup. They characterize its compact symplectic Lie algebra without adding any trace condition. In fact the trace automatically vanishes. The free anti-Hermitian block has real parameters, and the complex symmetric matrix has real parameters. Thus
Here is a complete matrix-unit basis of the compact symplectic Lie algebra. The generators supplying are
The two families supplying the real and imaginary parts of are, for ,
The denominator merely avoids double-counting diagonal entries. Each displayed generator obeys both defining tangent conditions. The generators form a real basis of the allowed blocks, and the generators form a real basis of the complex symmetric blocks. Thus they are independent and their total number is . They give all generators required by the real compact algebra, including the case .
A subgroup of a group is a normal subgroup when for every , equivalently . The quotient group has the left cosets as elements, with , identity and inverse . Normality makes this multiplication independent of representatives.
The first isomorphism theorem for groups says that for a group homomorphism , its kernel of a group homomorphism is normal and
The image is taken with the induced group operation; surjectivity onto all of is not required.
For the given upper triangular matrices, take diagonal entries:
The target is a direct product of groups, with multiplication of nonzero real numbers in each coordinate. Indeed the product of two such matrices has diagonal , proving the group homomorphism property. Any pair of nonzero diagonal entries is attained by a diagonal matrix, so is surjective. Its kernel of a group homomorphism consists precisely of the matrices with , namely . Hence
with coordinatewise multiplication, not addition on .
Restrict the quotient projection to . This is a group homomorphism with
Its image is a nontrivial subgroup of the prime-order quotient group, because is not contained in . By Lagrange's theorem for finite groups, the image has order and is all of . The first isomorphism theorem for groups therefore gives
For the second assertion, partition into conjugacy classes for . Because is normal, conjugation by permutes these smaller classes: . This group action is transitive since any two elements of are conjugate in . Elements of fix every -class, so the action factors through .
If is the number of smaller classes, the orbit-stabilizer theorem for this transitive action gives . Thus
Distinct conjugacy classes are disjoint because they are orbits of a group action. This proves conjugacy class splitting in a prime-index normal subgroup without assuming all -conjugations are already conjugations by .
Lagrange's theorem for finite groups states that for a subgroup of a finite group , . For , two powers among coincide, giving for some positive . The least such exponent is the order of a group element, and the cyclic subgroup generated by consists of the distinct powers . Apply Lagrange's theorem for finite groups to obtain .
Cauchy's theorem for finite groups states that if a prime divides the order of a finite group, the group contains an element of order .
The classification of a group of order eight is
Here denotes the dihedral group of order eight, not a group of order sixteen. To prove exhaustiveness, every element order is or . An element of order eight generates the whole group, giving .
If no element has order four or eight, every nonidentity element is an involution. Since while and , we have . Choose an involution , another outside , and then outside the four-element subgroup . The factors commute and each added factor has trivial intersection with the preceding subgroup. The internal direct product theorem gives , an elementary abelian group.
Otherwise choose of order four and set . It has index two, so is normal. Choose . The two cosets show that generate and that . There is no element of order eight, so is either or .
If is abelian and , the internal direct product theorem yields . If instead , let ; commutativity gives and , producing the same direct product.
If is nonabelian, conjugation by is a nonidentity group automorphism of : otherwise would commute and hence so would all of . Thus . With these are the relations of ; with they are the relations of the quaternion group . In either presentation every word reduces to , , . The standard eight-element model maps onto , and equal orders make that group homomorphism an isomorphism.
Finally group isomorphisms preserve element orders. The following numbers of elements distinguish all five possibilities:
GroupOrder 1Order 2Order 4Order 8
1124
1340
1700
1520
1160
Thus the list is both exhaustive and pairwise non-isomorphic.