The Number of Group Homomorphisms from Dm into Dn

DOI10.4169/COLLEGE.MATH.J.44.3.190MaRDI QIDQ2858995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeremiah W. Johnson

Publication date 5 November 2013

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2363

zbMATH Keywords

dihedral groupsnumber of group homomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Groups, rings, fields (educational aspects) (97H40)

Abstract: Counting homomorphisms between cyclic groups is a common exercise in a first course in abstract algebra. A similar problem, accessible at the same level, is to count the number of group homomorphisms from a dihedral group of order $2m$ into a dihedral group of order $2n$. While the solution requires only elementary group theory, the result does not appear in the literature or in the usual texts. As the solution may be of interest, particularly to those teaching undergraduate abstract algebra, it is provided in this note.

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