symmetric group S N

GPTKB entity

Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:group_of_people
permutation group
gptkbp:actsOn set of N elements
gptkbp:centralTo trivial group (for N > 2)
gptkbp:conjugacyClasses indexed by cycle type
gptkbp:contains alternating group A_N
gptkbp:containsElement all permutations of N elements
gptkbp:firstNontrivialCase gptkb:S_3
gptkbp:generation adjacent transpositions
gptkbp:hasSubgroup general linear group GL(N, C) (via permutation matrices)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label symmetric group S N
gptkbp:identityElement identity permutation
gptkbp:isNonAbelian false (for N > 2)
gptkbp:isomorphicTo automorphism group of N-element set
gptkbp:isSimple false (for N > 2, except N=6)
gptkbp:notation S_N
gptkbp:order N!
gptkbp:outerAutomorphism nontrivial only for N=6
gptkbp:presentedBy generators: transpositions, relations: Coxeter relations
gptkbp:representationTheory irreducible representations correspond to partitions of N
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:algebra
gptkb:algebraic_geometry
gptkb:Galois_theory
group theory
mathematical physics
number theory
representation theory
combinatorics
enumerative combinatorics
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:SU(N)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6