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Title: Prove or disprove: There is a noncyclic abelian group of order 52.?
Post by: fire_crystal on Sep 25, 2012
Prove or disprove: There is a noncyclic abelian group of order 52.?


Title: Prove or disprove: There is a noncyclic abelian group of order 52.?
Post by: tommyd on Sep 25, 2012
There is no noncyclic abelian group of order 52.  You need to invoke the Sylow theorems in order to tackle this.  You can find the details of how to classify the groups of order 52 at the links provided below (the answer to problem 11).