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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2019 2 a Solution by
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Put and , using . ThenEvery 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 arewith sizes . There is no mixing between them: their elements have orders one, three and two, respectively.
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