Sylow subgroups of A6

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In the alternating group , of order , a Sylow subgroup of order five is generated by a five-cycle. There are five-cycles, four in each such subgroup, giving subgroups. A Sylow subgroup of order nine is generated by disjoint three-cycles, hence is . The unordered partitions of six letters into two triples give all such subgroups by Sylow conjugacy, and their single three-cycles recover the partition uniquely. There are partitions.

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