Re: Quotient group question

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:25:51 -0800, William Elliot
<marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, [ISO-8859-1] José Carlos Santos wrote:
On 04-02-2008 10:24, *** wrote:

Here's another question: what is the smallest normal subgroup H of Z*Z
such that (Z*Z)/H is isomorphic to Z?

What about answering first to the questions raised by your previous
question?

He tacidly addressed them with his revised question.
There is however, no smallest normal subgroup of Z^2.

The group in question is Z*Z, not Z^2.

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