rallycar18 Messages 9 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Jun 9, 2010 #1 Homework Statement Suppose [d], [tex]\in[/tex] Z sub n. Last edited: Jun 9, 2010
CompuChip Science Advisor Homework Helper Messages 4,305 Reaction score 49 Jun 9, 2010 #2 The good news here is, that you can perform all operations in Zm by picking any representative and working in the integers. So if c sits in the conjugacy class of a, you can write c = a + i m where 0 <= a < m and i is some integer, similarly d = b + j m
The good news here is, that you can perform all operations in Zm by picking any representative and working in the integers. So if c sits in the conjugacy class of a, you can write c = a + i m where 0 <= a < m and i is some integer, similarly d = b + j m
CompuChip Science Advisor Homework Helper Messages 4,305 Reaction score 49 Jun 9, 2010 #3 If cd is congruent to ab mod m, then cd lies in [ab] by definition, doesn't it? If you want a less trivial proof, show that cd = ab + km for some integer k.
If cd is congruent to ab mod m, then cd lies in [ab] by definition, doesn't it? If you want a less trivial proof, show that cd = ab + km for some integer k.