The Unapologetic Mathematician

Mathematics for the interested outsider

Permutation groups

UPDATE: Since I noticed later that the convention that makes things simplest in group actions is to compose permutations right-to-left, I’ve gone back and tweaked that here.

Today I want to go into an example of a group in a lot more detail. It looks pretty long, so I’ll just put the whole thing behind the jump
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February 3, 2007 Posted by | Algebra, Group theory, Structure of Groups | 43 Comments