Part 1: the integers

Integers, divisibility, gcd, prime factorization

Congruences, CRT

Exercise modular square roots

  • Which congruences mod 19 have square roots?
  • Mod which small primes does 19 have a square root?

Chinese remainder theorem

Exercise CRT

Define f(n) as smallest positive x such that x cong -k mod p_k for the first k primes p_1,..,p_k

Plot the values of f(n)/(prod p_k)

Integers modulo n

Exercise order of elements in cyclic group

  • For various n, use the above code to find the number of elements of order k in Zn.
  • Formulate a hypothesis
  • (prove it if you can)

Part 2: permutations

Representations of Permutations

Permutation statistics

Exercise partition statistics

  • For n from 2 to 20, say, plot the function "number of perms in S_n with k inversions"
  • Formulate some hypothesis
  • Do the same but for the number of descents
  • Do the same but for the number of peaks
  • Is there a correlation between these three statistics? How would you check that?

Groups of symmetries

Exercise D6

  • Show that all elements can be written as r^k or sr^k
  • What is the element sr^k geometrically
  • What is r^ksr^m for 0 <= k,m <= 6 ?
  • Describe the conjugacy classes, name elements r^k or sr^k or describe them geometrically

Exercise D7

  • Same as for D6

Exercise 5c

Exercise Symmetry of cube

  • Describe all symmetries of the cube geometrically
  • Describe the conjugacy classes of the full symmetry group and of the rigid symmetry group

Exercise Symmetry of dodecaedron

  • How many elements are there in the full symmetry group of the dodecahedron?
  • What are their orders; i.e. how many elements are there of order two, of order 3, et cetera
  • Compare with a well-known group with the same number of elements

Automorphism groups of graphs

Exercise automorphism group of linegraph

Find (guess) the automorphism group of the line graph, for all n

Exercise automorphism group of cyclegraph

Find (guess) the automorphism group of the cycle graph, for all n

Exercise automorphism group of complete graphs

  • Find (guess) the automorphism group of the complete graph
  • Find (guess) the automorphism group of the complete bipartite graph

Exercise automorphism group of trees

  • Find (guess) the automorphism group of a complete binary tree
  • Find (guess) the automorphism group of a tree

Cayley graphs of groups

Exercise Cayley graph

  • Let G be Sn and S the set of adjacent transpositions
  • What is the Cayley graph?
  • How many vertices in the Cayley graph are at distance k from the identity?

Cycle graphs

Exercise graphofcycles

  • Explain what the above code does
  • Predict what kind of graph the dihedral groups would yield
  • Verify your prediction

Part 3: extra

Solving linear recurence equations