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- Subject: Re: Looking for name of group of order 12...
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:25:51 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.194440.4819@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlm7638@tamsun.tamu.edu (Jack McKinney) writes:
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- > Here I go, with yet another group theory question. This one is of
- >etymology. There are five groups of order 12: The cyclic group of order
- >12 (Z_12), the direct product of the cyclic groups of orders 2 and 6
- >(Z_2 x Z_6), The alternating group on 4 objects (A_4), the dihedral
- >group of a 6-sided object (D_6), and then one more. This last one
- >I have always seen written as just 'T'. Can anyone tell me where this
- >name comes from?
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- > T={<a,b>: a^6=e, a^3=b^2, ba=a^5 b}
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- I've never seen "T", but it is also [Z_3]Z_4;
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- {<a,b>: a^3=b^4=e, ba=a^2 b}
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- Z_12 = Z_4 x Z_3
- Z_2 x Z_6 = K_4 x Z_3 (K_4 = Z_2 x Z_2))
- D_6 = S_3 x Z_2 = [Z_3]Z_2 x Z_2
- A_4 = [K_4]Z_3
- "T" = [Z_3]Z_4
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