Hands-on 5 Question 3

Hands-on 5 Question 3

by Yixuan Xu -
Number of replies: 1

Hello

Could you please explain why the second statement is true, I think it's true only when (A \otimes B) is included in (A + \otimes B +), but here we can have (A \otimes B)+, thank you very much! 

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Re: Hands-on 5 Question 3

by Kalpani Anuradha Welivita -
We can write (A⊗B)+ as (Ak, Bk), where k ∈ ℤ+

A+ ≡ An where n ∈ ℤ+.
B+ ≡ Bm where m ∈ ℤ+.
So, A+⊗B+ ≡ (An, Bm) where n ∈ ℤ+ and m ∈ ℤ+.

Note that in (A⊗B)+, the power (k) is the same for A and B.
For A+⊗B+, n and m could be either equal (n=m) or not equal (n≠m).

Hence, (A⊗B)+ is included in A+⊗B+. This is the case when n=m.