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  2. Symmetric group - Wikipedia

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    The Sylow p-subgroups of the symmetric group of degree p 2 are the wreath product of two cyclic groups of order p. For instance, when p = 3 , a Sylow 3-subgroup of Sym(9) is generated by a = (1 4 7)(2 5 8)(3 6 9) and the elements x = (1 2 3), y = (4 5 6), z = (7 8 9) , and every element of the Sylow 3-subgroup has the form a i x j y k z l for ...

  3. Lattice of subgroups - Wikipedia

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    The dihedral group Dih 4 has ten subgroups, counting itself and the trivial subgroup. Five of the eight group elements generate subgroups of order two, and the other two non-identity elements both generate the same cyclic subgroup of order four. In addition, there are two subgroups of the form Z 2 × Z 2, generated by pairs of order-two ...

  4. Sylow theorems - Wikipedia

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    In D 6 all reflections are conjugate, as reflections correspond to Sylow 2-subgroups. A simple illustration of Sylow subgroups and the Sylow theorems are the dihedral group of the n-gon, D 2n. For n odd, 2 = 2 1 is the highest power of 2 dividing the order, and

  5. Subgroup - Wikipedia

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    Subgroup. In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a subset of a group G is a subgroup of G if the members of that subset form a group with respect to the group operation in G. Formally, given a group G under a binary operation ∗, a subset H of G is called a subgroup of G if H also forms a group under the operation ∗.

  6. Characteristic subgroup - Wikipedia

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    In the quaternion group of order 8, each of the cyclic subgroups of order 4 is normal, but none of these are characteristic. However, the subgroup, {1, −1}, is characteristic, since it is the only subgroup of order 2. If n is even, the dihedral group of order 2n has 3 subgroups of index 2, all of which are normal. One of these is the cyclic ...

  7. Automorphisms of the symmetric and alternating groups

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    This follows from inspection of 5-cycles: each 5-cycle generates a group of order 5 (thus a Sylow subgroup), there are 5!/5 = 120/5 = 24 5-cycles, yielding 6 subgroups (as each subgroup also includes the identity), and S n acts transitively by conjugation on the set of cycles of a given class, hence transitively by conjugation on these subgroups.

  8. Subgroups of cyclic groups - Wikipedia

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    Subgroups of cyclic groups. In abstract algebra, every subgroup of a cyclic group is cyclic. Moreover, for a finite cyclic group of order n, every subgroup's order is a divisor of n, and there is exactly one subgroup for each divisor. [1][2] This result has been called the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups. [3][4]

  9. Maximal subgroup - Wikipedia

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    Maximal subgroup. In mathematics, the term maximal subgroup is used to mean slightly different things in different areas of algebra. In group theory, a maximal subgroup H of a group G is a proper subgroup, such that no proper subgroup K contains H strictly. In other words, H is a maximal element of the partially ordered set of subgroups of G ...