How many subgroups of orderdoes the abelian group
have?
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How many subgroups of orderdoes the abelian group
have?
A subgroup of an abelian group inherits commutativity, and we know the order of the subgroup is, so we can apply the fundamental theorem of finitely generated groups to see that the only groups of order
are
and
. All that it amounts to is counting elements of order
and
in the two groups, and then I think you can take it from there to count how many subgroups of this order you could make out of these elements.
Hint: Theorem If d is a positive divisor of n, the number of elements of order d in a cyclic group of order n iswhere
is Euler's totient function. Euler's totient function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia it is the number of positive integers less than and relatively prime to n.