Group Isomorphism - Cyclic Groups

Cyclic Groups

All cyclic groups of a given order are isomorphic to .

Let G be a cyclic group and n be the order of G. G is then the group generated by . We will show that

Define

, so that . Clearly, is bijective.

Then

which proves that .

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