A1.4

Groups, Rings and Fields
Part II, 2002

(i) What is a Sylow subgroup? State Sylow's Theorems.

Show that any group of order 33 is cyclic.

(ii) Prove the existence part of Sylow's Theorems.

[You may use without proof any arithmetic results about binomial coefficients which you need.]

Show that a group of order p2qp^{2} q, where pp and qq are distinct primes, is not simple. Is it always abelian? Give a proof or a counterexample.