Quaternion construction of an index-five subgroup of PSL2 over F5

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Over , put
These determinant-one matrices satisfy , , and . Conjugation by cycles . Thus is a quaternion group of order eight, normalized by an element of order three. Their generated subgroup has order in , hence order after quotienting by . Its index-five coset action, together with simplicity and perfectness, identifies with the alternating group .

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