Paper 3, Section II, D
Let be a prime number. Let be a group such that every non-identity element of has order .
(i) Show that if is finite, then for some . [You must prove any theorems that you use.]
(ii) Show that if , and , then .
Hence show that if is abelian, and is finite, then .
(iii) Let be the set of all matrices of the form
where and is the field of integers modulo . Show that every nonidentity element of has order if and only if . [You may assume that is a subgroup of the group of all invertible matrices.]
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