713 Assignments for Spring 2009

  1. p.133 #1 -- "get-acquainted special"

  2. p.137 #4

    BONUS p.133 #3 and p.137 #1

  3. Prove that a group is a (non-concrete) category with one object in which all arrows are invertible, and that a morphism of groups is a functor of such categories.

  4. p.140 #1

  5. Consider the set P of all positive integers. Define an arrow from to if and only if divides . Show that this provides the structure of a (non-concrete) category on the positive integers.

  6. p.146 #4

  7. p.153 #3

  8. Prove that a lattice is a category in which any two objects have at most one arrow between them, and that has products and coproducts.

  9. p.162 #5

  10. Prove Thm.3 p.166.

  11. p.167 #6

    BONUS p.167 #7

  12. p.170 #13.(b) and p.173 #4.(b)

  13. p.178 #4

  14. p.184 #2

  15. p.192 #1

  16. p.192 #4

  17. p.325 #1

  18. p.325 #6

    BONUS Prove Prop.18 p.324 for f.g. free modules.

  19. p.328 #3

  20. p.333 #2

  21. p.334 #6

  22. p.337 #4

  23. Determine the monics and epics in the category P of Assignment 4.

  24. p.500 #4

  25. p.511 #2

    BONUS Regard a group as in Assignment 2. Prove that an automorphism is inner if and only if it is naturally equivalent to 1G .

  26. p.516 #4--5

  27. p.520 #5.(b)

    From the handout:

  28. p.1 #1

  29. p.1 #2 and p.2 #1, 3 -- due Mon 18 May by 4:30 pm

  30. p.3 #3, 4, 5 -- due Mon 18 May by 4:30 pm


All rewrites of ungraded assignments
and any bonus problems
are due Fri 15 May by 4:30 pm

Lists of assignments from Spring '07 and Fall '04.


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