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SDLMTA5107 ALGEBRA
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UNIT 1 GROUP THEORY I 10 Hrs

Introduction to Group theory - Permutation group -Symmetric group - Cycles and Alternating Groups - Homomorphism and
isomorphism – Automorphism - Inner automorphism.

UNIT 2 GROUP THEORY II 10 Hrs

Cauchy theorem for abelian group – Sylow’s theorem for abelian group - Group of Inner automorphisms – Cayley’s theorem -
Sylow theorems

UNIT 3 RING THEORY 10 Hrs

Homomorphism of rings - Ideals and quotient rings - Field of quotients of an integral domain - Euclidean rings.

UNIT 4 VECTOR SPACES 10 Hrs

Basic concepts - linear independence and bases – Inner product spaces – Characteristic roots and matrices of a linear
transformation

UNIT 5 FIELDS 10 Hrs

Fields - Finite Field - Roots of polynomials - Splitting field - Field Extension - Galois theory

Max Hrs: 50hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. I.N. Herstein, Topics in Algebra, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Pvt. Ltd, 2000.
2. P.B. Bhattacharya, S .K. Jain a n d S . R . Nagpaul, B a s i c A b s t r a c t A l g e b r a , S e c o n d E d i t i o n , Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
3. John B. Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1970.

CO1 Define Homomorphism of groups, Automorphism, permutation groups, symmetric groups, inner automorphism,
homomorphism of rings, ideals, quotient rings, Integral domain, field, splitting field, Vector spaces, inner product spaces.

CO2 Understand the proof of Sylow’s theorems, Cayley theorem, Cauchy theorem for abelian groups.
CO3 To identify the kernel of the homomorphism, conjugacy of the given permutation. Find characteristic of integral domain
and characteristic roots and bases of vector spaces.
CO4 Distinguish the relation between normalizer and center of the group, Finding the matrices of the given linear
transformation, roots of the polynomials, kernel of the given homomorphism, p-Sylow subgroup
CO5 Determine characteristic of division ring, Exhibiting the relation between the unique factorization domain and principal
ideal domain.
CO6 Produce the roots of polynomial, characteristic roots.