Groupprops:Error log/2011
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This is an archive of errors fixed in the year 2011. The criteria for logging an error are that either of these conditions hold:
- The error was on a highly trafficked page (more than 1000 cumulative pageviews so far) and stayed online for at least 24 hours.
- The error stayed online for at least a month.
Contents
- For some pages, due to editing from a mobile/NetFront browser, the entire page got truncated to the first 5 KB (roughly 5-6 scroll downs) and the rest of the page went missing. This happened to the quaternion group page: the truncation happened on July 1 and was fixed on July 3. It also happened to the linear representation theory of quaternion group page on July 2, but that was fixed within an hour.
Erroneous pages/statements
- August 21, 2011: A page titled normal not implies Lagrange-like incorrectly stated that a normal subloop in a finite loop need not be a Lagrange-like subloop, and gave a mistaken example (the example subloop wasn't normal). The correct statement is normal implies Lagrange-like.
- A page titled non-modular implies character-determining mistakenly stated that if the characteristic of a field does not divide the order of a finite group, then any linear representation over the field is determined by its character. In fact, the statement is true only in characteristic zero, for the silly reason that taking a representation with multiplicity
gives a character that takes the value zero everywhere. The correct versions are at character determines representation in characteristic zero and character does not determine representation in any prime characteristic
Factual errors in high traffic pages
These errors are in pages that had received over 1000 cumulative pageviews at the time the error was fixed.
Page | Error description | Version where it was introduced | Version where it was corrected | Why error? Why not caught? ("I" refers to Vipul) |
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classification of finite abelian groups | Had ![]() ![]() |
December 31, 2011 | hadn't visited page often | |
quaternion group | Two wrong "Verbal definitions" involving holomorphs, which should have been with dihedral group:D8 | May 13, 2007 (page creation) | June 29, 2011 | The error slipped my notice because I didn't ever actually read these other Verbal definitions. Beware of additional definitions. |
quaternion group | Typographical errors in verbal description relating ![]() |
May 13, 2007 (page creation) | June 29, 2011 | Detail, something I skip when reading |
dihedral group:D8 | Wrong additional definition involving another alternative presentation | March 26, 2010 | June 29, 2011 | It somehow didn't register, because I knew a definition "like" this is correct (which it is) |
dihedral group:D8 | Had one double transposition repeated, instead of writing another one that I should have, in the "definition as a permutation group" section | March 26, 2010 | June 21, 2011 | minor detail, didn't notice |
dihedral group:D8 | Had an error in the count for number of conjugacy classes of subgroups, had written "7" instead of "8" | didn't know the count offhand, so error didn't jar when reading | ||
dihedral group:D8 | In the "Description by presentation" section under GAP implementation, the F := FreeGroup(2); line was missing but instead the next line occurred twice. | minor detail, didn't notice. | ||
linear representation theory of quaternion group | Had number of irreducible representation as "3" instead of "5" even though there were 5 of them listed above | April 20, 2011 | July 1, 2011 | The error probably originated because I copied from linear representation theory of symmetric group:S3 and failed to modify. It lasted because I didn't pay much attention to that line since the line above -- the actual list of degrees -- was correct. |
linear representation theory of dihedral group:D8 | wrote "any field of characteristic not two or three" instead of "any field of characteristic not two" in the summary | April 20, 2011 | May 22, 2011 | minor detail, didn't notice. |
linear representation theory of dihedral group:D8 | "Smallest ring of realization" item, column on matrix entry list, had missing representations and wrong information on one representation | April 5, 2010 | June 29, 2011 | far down in page |
linear representation theory of dihedral group:D8 | In the description of the two-dimensional irreducible representation, interchanged row entries for "characteristic polynomial" and "minimal polynomial" | June 29, 2011 | July 1, 2011 | simply didn't notice, two columns already quite similar. Caught in two days. |
linear representation theory of quaternion group | Mistakenly wrote that if -1 is not a square, the field is not a splitting field. | July 2, 2011 | genuine conceptual misunderstanding | |
symmetric group:S3 | In the list of orders of subgroups, omitted the order of the whole group. | September 4, 2009 | July 3, 2011 | Not a very consequential or confusing error, because there was both a link to more detail elsewhere, and more detailed and correct information right below it. Got ignored while reading. |
quaternion group | Mistakenly wrote "Yes" for whether it's a rational-representation group, although the internal semantic storage was that it isn't, and the explanation on the side hinted that it isn't. (The explanation said "two-dimensional representation that is not rational" and the comment on the side said "Contrast with dihedral group:D8, that is a rational-representation group" | May 13, 2009 | July 3, 2011 | Far down in page, skipped notice. |
alternating group:A5 | Had a "10" instead of a "5" in an explanation for function value (not in the actual function value, which was correct at "5"). Very minor, clear error, not confusing. | July 6, 2011 | Error buried in explanation, analogous to typo. | |
linear representation theory of symmetric group:S4 | In the hook length formulas for the standard representation and product of standard and sign representations, had ![]() ![]() |
July 11, 2011 | Minor detail, didn't check formula | |
linear representation theory of symmetric group:S4 | Error in two of the cell entries for the size-degree-weighted character table (the original character table was correct) | July 16, 2011 | Minor detail, didn't check | |
symmetric group:S5 | Wrote ![]() ![]() |
October 1, 2011 | copy-and-paste error. |
Factual errors in low traffic pages
Page | Error description | Version where it was introduced | Version where it was corrected | Why error? Why not caught? ("I" refers to Vipul) |
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Sanov subgroup in SL(2,Z) | Had "1" instead of "2" in some matrix entries | March 30, 2011 | November 24, 2011 (by David Loeffler) | typo, didn't visit page often (the definition in the page Sanov subgroup in SL(2,Z) is free of rank two was correct) |
special linear group of degree two | error in general expression for multiplication of ![]() |
November 7, 2011 | didn't check the expression. | |
replacing a subgroup by a normal subgroup | November 7, 2011 | |||
projective general linear group | Stated inaccurate condition for ![]() ![]() |
November 7, 2011 | ||
second cohomology group for trivial group action | Confusing lead lines, confused wording with definition of second cohomology group | September 30, 2011 | ||
commensurator of subgroup is subgroup | Wrote ![]() ![]() |
February 19, 2011 | September 16, 2011 | |
constrained for a prime divisor implies not simple non-abelian | wrong definition of p-constraint in use | March 2, 2009 | September 16, 2011 | did not revisit page after conceptual confusion was cleared, page in obscure location |
Second cohomology group for trivial group action of V4 on Z2 | linked to direct product of D8 and Z4 instead of central product of D8 and Z4 at one place | September 14, 2011 | minor error, far down in page | |
SmallGroup(128,1015) | forgot to equate a chain equality to the identity element in a presentation | July 18, 2011 | September 14, 2011 | minor error, hadn't visited page often |
Finite group having at least two conjugacy classes of involutions has order less than the cube of the maximum of orders of centralizers of involutions | Wrote ![]() ![]() |
September 12, 2011 | minor error | |
Corollary of centralizer product theorem for rank at least three | Forgot the rank at least three in the Given part of the proof section (it was included in the main text of the statement). | September 12, 2011 | ||
Pi-separable and pi'-core-free implies pi-core is self-centralizing | Had "=" instead of ![]() |
September 11, 2011 | ||
p-solvable implies p-constrained | wrote ![]() ![]() |
September 11, 2011 | ||
D8 versus Q8 | wrong name of group in one of the captions to the lattice diagrams. | September 7, 2011 | ||
A4 in S4 | Slightly wrong reason for why it is the subgroup generated by squares | ? | August 23, 2011 | minor error, didn't notice |
Congruence condition on number of subgroups of given prime power order | Mistaken normal subgroup version | August 18, 2011, further fix September 2, 2011 | Slight conceptual confusion, juggling editing multiple versions of statement. | |
Fusion systems for dihedral group:D8 | a few minor errors in description, the whole thing was rewritten | August 4, 2011 | ||
Mathieu group:M9 | Fitting length was mis-stated as 1, it should be 2 | July 31, 2011 | minor error, went unnoticed. Possibly typo. | |
Groups of order 168 | Typographical error, 169 instead of 168 | May 23, 2011 | July 30, 2011 | Minor typographical error |
Mathieu group:M11 | Mistakenly wrote that ![]() |
September 2, 2009 | July 30, 2011 | confusion at the time of writing the page. |
element structure of general linear group of degree two over a finite field | Error with description of centralizers of elements of Jordan blocks of size two -- mistakenly assumed it is GA(1,q) and also called it a Borel subgroup | July 20, 2011 | ||
element structure of special linear group of degree two over a finite field | minor errors -- fixed semisimple or unipotent to semisimple or unipotent or negative times unipotent and also some place with a ![]() ![]() |
July 20, 2011 | ||
element structure of special linear group:SL(2,3) | Had one of the conjugacy class representative matrices wrong/repeated | October 13, 2010 | July 17, 2011 | Minor error, page not frequently visited. |
element structure of symmetric group:S6 | mistakenly clubbed two conjugacy classes of size 90 into a single automorphism class | July 16, 2011 | ||
element structure of groups of order 64 | had one of the totals of rows entries in a row cell as "24" instead of "22" -- easy to catch upon inspection | June 12, 2011 | July 15, 2011 | minor error, escaped notice. Finally caught based on congruence mod 3 condition. |
grand orthogonality theorem | Mistakenly stated the inner product with itself as ![]() ![]() |
July 13, 2011 | Page was low priority, hadn't read it for long | |
column orthogonality theorem | Slight mistake in formulation for non-splitting fields, ignored the case of positive Schur index | Subtle error, page low priority | ||
order of periodic element of general linear group over integers is bounded | had mistakenly stated bound in terms of Euler totient function, proof wrong (though the erroneous part of proof was marked Fill this in later) | October 6, 2008 | July 11, 2011 | genuine confusion, had been told the wrong result |
free group:F2 | Stated wrongly that it is not Hopfian in the "Group properties" section | September 10, 2009 | July 3, 2011 | Might have had a misconception when creating the page, or been careless. Hadn't visited the page frequently, also, obscure location within page. |
linear representation theory of special linear group:SL(2,3) | Had "maximum degree of irreducible representation" as 2 instead of 3, even though listing above was correct | April 20, 2011 | July 1, 2011 | Either a typo or a copy-paste error. Hadn't visited the page much, so probably lasted because I didn't have enough opportunities to catch the error. |
semidihedral group:SD16 | Mistakenly stated under "Group properties" that this is a group in which every normal subgroup is isomorph-free. What I meant to say is that every normal subgroup is normal-isomorph-free? | September 13, 2009 | July 4, 2011 | Slight confusion at the time of page creation; also, hadn't read the page frequently. |
A4 in S4 | Had a semantic labeling error, not visible in actual text, on whether the subgroup is homomorph-containing (the actual text read fine) | December 1, 2010 | July 8, 2011 | error in semantic labeling, not visible in page. |
homomorph-containing subgroup | One of the rows in the Stronger Properties table was messed up (in appearance and minor content error too) | November 12, 2009 | July 8, 2011 |