# Math Help - Isomorphic

1. ## Isomorphic

Let G be the additive group if all polynomials in x with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}$, and let H be the multiplicative group of all positive rationals. Prove that G $\cong$ H

I'm think if I list the prime numbers $p_0=2$, $p_1=3$, $p_2=5$,..., and define

$\varphi(e_0+e_1x+e_2x^2+...+e_nx^n)=p_0^{e_0}...p_ n^{e_n}$

But I'm really not sure where to go from here..

2. Originally Posted by ux0
Let G be the additive group if all polynomials in x with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}$, and let H be the multiplicative group of all positive rationals. Prove that G $\cong$ H

I'm think if I list the prime numbers $p_0=2$, $p_1=3$, $p_2=5$,..., and define

$\varphi(e_0+e_1x+e_2x^2+...+e_nx^n)=p_0^{e_0}...p_ n^{e_n}$

But I'm really not sure where to go from here..
you've done the hard part, which is finding the map. $\varphi$ is obviously well-defined because $\{x^n \}_{n \geq 0}$ is a basis for the free abelian group $\mathbb{Z}[x].$ to prove that $\varphi$ is a homomorphism,

let $f=\sum_{j=0}^n a_jx^j, \ g=\sum_{j=0}^n b_jx^j,$ where $n=\max \{\deg f, \deg g \}.$ then $f+g=\sum_{j=0}^n (a_j+b_j)x^j$ and thus $\varphi(f + g)=\prod_{j=0}^n p_j^{a_j+b_j}=\prod_{j=0}^n p_j^{a_j} \prod_{j=0}^n p_j^{b_j}=\varphi(f) \varphi(g).$

injectivity and surjectivity of $\varphi$ follows from the unique prime factorization that we have in $\mathbb{Z}.$