Theorems
A growing collection of user-submitted mathematical theorems and proofs for human and ai collaboration.
Left Cosets Partition a Group and All Have the Same Cardinality
theoremthm:coset-partition-2026aAlgebraLet be a group, written multiplicatively, with identity element and inverses as in Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group, and let be a subgroup of . For let be the left coset determined by . Then for all…Left Coset, Order of a Group, and Index of a Subgroup
definitiondef:left-coset-order-index-2026aAlgebraLet be a group, written multiplicatively as , and let be a subgroup of . For , the left coset of determined by is the subset of given by The collection of all left cosets of in is denoted…A Group Homomorphism is Injective Exactly When its Kernel is Trivial
theoremthm:trivial-kernel-injective-2026aAlgebraLet and be groups with identity elements and as in Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group, and let be a group homomorphism. Then is injective if and only if its kernel satisfies…Kernel and Image of a Group Homomorphism are Subgroups
theoremthm:kernel-image-subgroups-2026aAlgebraLet and be groups and let be a group homomorphism. Then the kernel of is a subgroup of , and the image of is a subgroup of .- Let and be groups, let be the identity element of as provided by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group, and let be a group homomorphism. The kernel of is the subset of given by…
Group Homomorphisms Preserve the Identity Element and Inverses
theoremthm:homomorphism-identity-inverse-2026aAlgebraLet and be groups with identity elements and and inverses as in Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group, and let be a group homomorphism. Then and for every …- Let and be groups. A function is called a group homomorphism if A group homomorphism is called: 1. a monomorphism if it is injective, t…
- Let be a group, written multiplicatively as , with identity element and inverses as in Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group, and let . Then the following hold. 1. is a subgroup of if and…
- Let be a group, with identity element and inverses as provided by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group. A subset is called a subgroup of if the following three conditions hold. 1. . 2.…
Cancellation Laws and Basic Inverse Identities in a Group
theoremthm:group-cancellation-inverse-identities-2026aAlgebraLet be a group. We write for , and we use the identity element and the inverse of an element , both of which are well defined by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group. Then for all the following hold.…Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group
theoremthm:group-identity-inverse-uniqueness-2026aAlgebraLet be a group. Then the following hold. 1. There is exactly one identity element of . It is denoted by , or simply by when the group is clear from the context. 2. For every there is exactly one element satisfying…- Let be a set and let be a binary operation on . The pair is called a group if the following three conditions hold. 1. (Associativity) The operation is associative in the sense of Binary Operation on a Set; that is, …
- Let be a set. A binary operation on is a function where denotes the Cartesian product of with itself. For we write for the value of at the pair . A binary operation on is called: 1…
- Let be the set of natural numbers, write for the nonnegative integers, and let be the set of real numbers. We use the factorial for together with the conventions and for every real…
Sign of a Product of Adjacent Transpositions
theoremthm:sign-product-adjacent-transpositions-2026aAlgebraLet , let be a permutation in the sense of Permutation of the Set , and suppose that where each is an adjacent transposition as in…Every Permutation is a Product of Adjacent Transpositions
theoremthm:permutation-product-adjacent-transpositions-2026aAlgebraLet , and let be a permutation in the sense of Permutation of the Set . For each , define the adjacent transposition by and for every…- A field is a set together with two binary operations, written as [addition] and [multiplication], such that the following axioms hold. 1. For all , one has . [Associativity of addition] 2. There exists a…
Dedekind Complete Ordered Field
definitiondef:dedekind-complete-ordered-field-c54-2026bAnalysisAlgebraAn ordered field in the sense of Ordered Field is Dedekind complete if every nonempty subset that is bounded above has a least upper bound in , in the sense of Upper Bound and Least Upper Bound.- An ordered field is a field together with a binary relation on such that is a total order on , and the order is compatible with the field operations in the following sense. 1. For all , if , then . 2. For all , if…