TITLE: Number of abelian groups of order $p^n$
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: If $p$ is prime, determine the number of abelian groups of order $p^n$ for each $1\leq n\leq8$
  (I assume that "up to isomorphism" should be included somewhere in the question for the sake of precision...)Could someone please review/confirm my work?
  n = 1: $\mathbb{Z}_p $ 
  n = 2: $\mathbb{Z}_{p^2}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_p\times \mathbb{Z}_p$ 
  n = 3: $\mathbb{Z}_{p^3}$,  $\mathbb{Z}_{p^2}\times \mathbb{Z}_p$, and $\mathbb{Z}_p\times \mathbb{Z}_p \times\mathbb{Z}_p$
  n = 4: $\mathbb{Z}_{p^4}$, 
  $\mathbb{Z}_{p^3} \times \mathbb{Z}_p$, $\mathbb{Z}_{p^2}\times \mathbb{Z}_{p^2}$,  $\mathbb{Z}_{p^2}\times \mathbb{Z}_p \times \mathbb{Z}_p$, and $\mathbb{Z}_p\times \mathbb{Z}_p \times\mathbb{Z}_p \times \mathbb{Z}_p$
et cetera

I am simply considering all the options for when the largest exponent of $p$ is $n$, then $n-1$, and so on. How does this look? Thanks!
(Apparently I don't know how to "end a quote"...)

REPLY [13 votes]: Your work is correct, except that you aren't answering the question asked (they asked you for the number of (nonisomorphic) groups, not for a list of the groups). So for $n=1$, the answer should be "1"; for $n=2$ the answer should be "2"; for $n=3$ the answer should be "3"; for $n=4$ the answer should be "5", etc.
The magic words  you are looking for are "partitions of $n$." You should verify that there is a bijection between the isomorphism types of abelian groups of order $p^n$ and the partitions of $n$.

REPLY [5 votes]: It's equal to the number of partitions of $n$. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AbelianGroup.html