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Chapter 3: Permutation Groups

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Learning Objectives
  • Define  and understand the properties of Permutation groups, symmetric groups, alternating groups and dihedral groups
  • Solve problems involving the Permutation groups, symmetric groups, alternating groups and dihedral groups

 

Definition: Permuatation Group

Let X be a non-empty set. Then, the set of all the bijections from X to X with compositions forms a group; this group is called a Permutation group.

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