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The direct product of groups uses componentwise multiplication:Associativity follows in each factor. The maps $g\mapsto (g,e_H)$ and $h\mapsto (e_G,h)$ are injective group homomorphisms onto subgroups, giving the required copies of $G$ and $H$.

Use the PDF's convention that the subscript in $D_n$ is the group order. Write the hexagon group as $D_{12}=⟨r,s\mid r^6=s^2=e,srs=r^{-1}⟩$ and the triangle group as $D_6=⟨a,b\mid a^3=b^2=e,bab=a^{-1}⟩$. Let $z$ generate $C_2$. In $D_{12}$, $r^2$ has order three and $s$ conjugates it to its inverse, so $⟨r^2,s⟩$ is a copy of $D_6$. The element $r^3$ has order two and is central, since $s{r}^{3}s=r^{-3}=r^3$.

DefineThe generator relations are preserved and $r^3$ commutes with the other images, so $\Phi$ is a group homomorphism from the direct product. The six residues $2i+3k$ are distinct modulo six: reduction modulo two first determines $k$, then reduction modulo three determines $i$. Together with $j$, they give all twelve distinct normal forms $r^m{s}^j$ in $D_{12}$. Thus $\Phi$ is bijective andThis is the dihedral splitting when the half-rotation order is odd with half-rotation order three.

Finally, $D_{12}$ contains an element of order six, namely $r$. The even cycle types on four symbols are the identity, a 3-cycle, and two disjoint transpositions; their orders are respectively one, three and two. Therefore $A_4$ has no element of order six. Since a group isomorphism preserves element orders,