Cube symmetry action on edges

ID: cube-symmetry-action-on-edges

The full symmetry group of a cube acts transitively and faithfully on its twelve edges. For vertices , its signed permutation matrices act transitively on the edges. The stabilizer subgroup of consists of independently swapping and reversing , and is a Klein four-group. The orbit-stabilizer theorem gives order . Fixing every edge fixes every vertex, as each vertex is the unique intersection of its three incident edges, so the group action is faithful. The resulting subgroup of has index and is not normal: central inversion has cycle type , whose conjugacy class in has elements.

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