The cases in proving that a group of order 90 is not simple












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I am trying to attempt this problem, but I am wondering why exactly these are the two cases the problem is split into. I can understand the first case, since that lets us count elements and get a contradiction, but why is the second case there? In other words, why do these two cases exhaust all possibilities?










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    Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
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    Dec 8 '18 at 23:00






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    Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
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    – A. Pongrácz
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$begingroup$


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I am trying to attempt this problem, but I am wondering why exactly these are the two cases the problem is split into. I can understand the first case, since that lets us count elements and get a contradiction, but why is the second case there? In other words, why do these two cases exhaust all possibilities?










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  • $begingroup$
    Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
    $endgroup$
    – Eric Wofsey
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:00






  • 2




    $begingroup$
    Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
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    – A. Pongrácz
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:04














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I am trying to attempt this problem, but I am wondering why exactly these are the two cases the problem is split into. I can understand the first case, since that lets us count elements and get a contradiction, but why is the second case there? In other words, why do these two cases exhaust all possibilities?










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I am trying to attempt this problem, but I am wondering why exactly these are the two cases the problem is split into. I can understand the first case, since that lets us count elements and get a contradiction, but why is the second case there? In other words, why do these two cases exhaust all possibilities?







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  • $begingroup$
    Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
    $endgroup$
    – Eric Wofsey
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:00






  • 2




    $begingroup$
    Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
    $endgroup$
    – A. Pongrácz
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:04


















  • $begingroup$
    Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
    $endgroup$
    – Eric Wofsey
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:00






  • 2




    $begingroup$
    Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
    $endgroup$
    – A. Pongrácz
    Dec 8 '18 at 23:04
















$begingroup$
Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
$endgroup$
– Eric Wofsey
Dec 8 '18 at 23:00




$begingroup$
Slightly different context, but essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/2536201/…
$endgroup$
– Eric Wofsey
Dec 8 '18 at 23:00




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$begingroup$
Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
$endgroup$
– A. Pongrácz
Dec 8 '18 at 23:04




$begingroup$
Of course they are exhaustive: (b) is the negation of (a). If two different subgroups of order 9 do not intersect trivially, then they necessarily intersect in a 3-element subgroup, as a proper nontrivial subgroup in a 9-element group must have 3 elements by the Lagrange theorem.
$endgroup$
– A. Pongrácz
Dec 8 '18 at 23:04










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