hw1.tex

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\newcommand{\myname}{Darij Grinberg} % ENTER YOUR NAME HERE
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\ihead{Solutions to homework set \#\psetnumber} % Page header left
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\textsc{University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics} \\ [25pt] % Your university, school and/or department name(s)
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\huge Math 4281: Introduction to Modern Algebra, \\
Spring 2019:
Homework \psetnumber\\% The assignment title
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\author{\myname}

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\begin{center} % Delete this if you want to save space!
{\large due date: \textbf{Friday, 8 February 2019} at the beginning of class, \\
or before that by email or canvas.

Please solve \textbf{at most 4 of the 6 exercises}!}
\end{center}

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%	EXERCISE 1
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\section{Exercise 1: Mutual divisibility is rare}

\subsection{Problem}

Let $a$ and $b$ be two integers such that $a \mid b$ and
$b \mid a$.
Prove that $\abs{a} = \abs{b}$.

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

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\section{Exercise 2: Congruence means equal remainders}

\subsection{Problem}

Let $n$ be a positive integer.
Let $u$ and $v$ be two integers.
Prove that $u \equiv v \mod n$
        % While it's called "congruent", the LaTeX command for
        % the symbol is "\equiv".
if and only if $u \% n = v \% n$.
        % To get the "%" sign, you need to type "\%".
        % Just typing "%" starts a comment.

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

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%	EXERCISE 2
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\section{Exercise 3: Even and odd}

\subsection{Problem}

Let $u$ be an integer.

\begin{enumerate}

\item[\textbf{(a)}]
Prove that $u$ is even if and only if $u \% 2 = 0$.

\item[\textbf{(b)}]
Prove that $u$ is odd if and only if $u \% 2 = 1$.

\item[\textbf{(c)}]
Prove that $u$ is even if and only if $u \equiv 0 \mod 2$.

\item[\textbf{(d)}]
Prove that $u$ is odd if and only if $u \equiv 1 \mod 2$.

\item[\textbf{(e)}]
Prove that $u$ is odd if and only if $u + 1$ is even.

\item[\textbf{(f)}]
Prove that exactly one of the two numbers $u$ and $u + 1$ is even.

\item[\textbf{(g)}]
Prove that $u \tup{u+1} \equiv 0 \mod 2$.

\item[\textbf{(h)}]
Prove that $u^2 \equiv -u \equiv u \mod 2$.

\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

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\section{Exercise 4: Factorials 102}

\subsection{Problem}

\begin{enumerate}

\item[\textbf{(a)}]
Prove that
\[
\dfrac{1! \cdot 2! \cdot \cdots \cdot \tup{2n}!}{n!}
= 2^n \cdot \prod_{i=1}^n \tup{\tup{2i-1}!}^2
\qquad \text{for each } n \in \NN .
\]

\item[\textbf{(b)}]
Prove that
\[
\sum_{k=0}^n \dfrac{1}{k! \cdot \tup{k+2}}
= 1 - \dfrac{1}{\tup{n+2}!}
\qquad \text{for each } n \in \NN .
\]

\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

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\section{Exercise 5: Binomial coefficients 102}

\subsection{Problem}

Prove that
\[
\dfrac{\tup{ab}!}{a! \tup{b!}^a}
= \prod_{k=1}^a \dbinom{kb-1}{b-1}
\]
for all $a \in \NN$ and all positive integers $b$.

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

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\section{Exercise 6: Binomial coefficients and coprimality}

\subsection{Problem}

It is well-known (see, e.g., \cite[Proposition 3.20]{detnotes})
that $\dbinom{n}{k} \in \ZZ$ for all $n \in \ZZ$ and $k \in \NN$.
(This is not at all clear from the definition of $\dbinom{n}{k}$;
it is saying that the product of any $k$ consecutive integers
is divisible by $k!$.
The case of $k = 2$ is the statement of Exercise 3 \textbf{(g)}.)
Thus, we can study the divisibility of binomial coefficients
by various integers.
There are hundreds of theorems about this; this exercise is
about one of them.

Let $a$ and $b$ be two coprime positive integers.

\begin{enumerate}

\item[\textbf{(a)}]
Prove that $\dfrac{a}{a+b} \dbinom{a+b}{a} = \dbinom{a+b-1}{a-1}$
and $\dfrac{b}{a+b} \dbinom{a+b}{a} = \dbinom{a+b-1}{b-1}$.

\item[\textbf{(b)}]
Prove that if $h \in \QQ$ satisfies $ah \in \ZZ$ and $bh \in \ZZ$,
then $h \in \ZZ$.
(This is where the coprimality of $a$ and $b$ comes into play.)

\item[\textbf{(c)}]
Prove that $a+b \mid \dbinom{a+b}{a}$.

\item[\textbf{(d)}]
Find a counterexample to the claim of part \textbf{(c)} if
$a$ and $b$ are allowed to not be coprime.

\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Solution}

[...]

\begin{thebibliography}{99999999}                                                                                         %

% Feel free to add your sources -- or copy some from the source code
% of the class notes ( http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~grinberg/t/19s/notes.tex ).

% This is the bibliography: The list of papers/books/articles/blogs/...
% cited. The syntax is: "\bibitem[name]{tag}Reference",
% where "name" is the name that will appear in the compiled
% bibliography, and "tag" is the tag by which you will refer to
% the source in the TeX file. For example, the following source
% has name "GrKnPa94" (so you will see it referenced as
% "[GrKnPa94]" in the compiled PDF) and tag "GKP" (so you
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\bibitem[GrKnPa94]{GKP}Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik,
\textit{Concrete Mathematics, Second Edition}, Addison-Wesley 1994.\\
See \url{https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/gkp.html} for errata.

\bibitem[Grinbe19]{detnotes}Darij Grinberg,
\textit{Notes on the combinatorial fundamentals of algebra},
10 January 2019. \\
\url{http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~grinberg/primes2015/sols.pdf}
\\
The numbering of theorems and formulas in this link might shift
when the project gets updated; for a ``frozen'' version whose
numbering is guaranteed to match that in the citations above, see
\url{https://github.com/darijgr/detnotes/releases/tag/2019-01-10} .

\end{thebibliography}

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