Solution

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Put and , using . Then
Every word can therefore be put in the form or , with . These give six distinct matrices:
The group isomorphism , identifies this group with the symmetric group , with permutations composed from right to left.
Conjugation by exchanges . Conjugation by cycles , because . Their conjugacy classes are
with sizes . There is no mixing between them: their elements have orders one, three and two, respectively.

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