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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2024 1 b Solution by
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Compose permutations from right to left. The three transpositions are , and . In cycle notation, direct composition givesThe complete symmetric group is thereforeConjugation relabels the entries of a cycle, so the conjugacy classes are preciselyTheir sizes are , respectively. The differing orders of group elements also show that these three sets cannot merge under conjugation.
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