Cyclic group:Z40

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Definition

This group, denoted $C_{40}$, ${\mathbb{Z}}_{40}$, or $\mathbb{Z}/40\mathbb{Z}$, is defined in the following equivalent ways:

• It is the unique (up to isomorphism) cyclic group of order 40, i.e., it is a group of integers modulo n where $n=40$.
• It is the external direct product of cyclic group:Z8 and cyclic group:Z5, i.e., is it ${\mathbb{Z}}_8\times {\mathbb{Z}}_5$.

GAP implementation

Group ID

This finite group has order 40 and has ID 2 among the groups of order 40 in GAP's SmallGroup library. For context, there are groups of order 40. It can thus be defined using GAP's SmallGroup function as:

SmallGroup(40,2)

For instance, we can use the following assignment in GAP to create the group and name it $G$:

gap> G := SmallGroup(40,2);

Conversely, to check whether a given group $G$ is in fact the group we want, we can use GAP's IdGroup function:

IdGroup(G) = [40,2]

or just do:

IdGroup(G)

to have GAP output the group ID, that we can then compare to what we want.

Other descriptions

Description	Functions used
CyclicGroup(40)	CyclicGroup
DirectProduct(CyclicGroup(8),CyclicGroup(5))	CyclicGroup, DirectProduct