Involutions in an even dihedral group
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For the dihedral group of a regular -gon, , use and . Its involutions are the central half-turn and all reflections . The half-turn has singleton conjugacy class and normal closure . Conjugating a reflection changes its exponent by an even integer or negates it, so its conjugacy class is . Products of consecutive reflections generate , giving normal closure , of order and index two. The two reflection classes are distinguished by exponent parity.
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