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Directly tracking the supplied permutations givesThus every group element reduces to $a^k$ or $b{a}^k$, $0\le k<6$. These are twelve distinct elements: $a$ has order six, while $b$ is not a power of $a$ because it exchanges the two six-element supports that every power of $a$ preserves. Therefore $|G|=12$. This is the dicyclic group with parameter three; the calculations give its order-twelve dicyclic character table.

Conjugation by $b$ inverts powers of $a$, while conjugation by $a$ changes the exponent in $b{a}^k$ by two modulo six. Conjugation by $b$ preserves that exponent's parity. The complete conjugacy classes areTheir sizes are $1,1,2,2,3,3$.

The normal subgroup $N=⟨a^2⟩$ has order three. The quotient is cyclic of order four, generated by $bN$, since $(bN{)}^2=aN$. Inflating its characters gives ${\chi }_j(b)=i^j$, ${\chi }_j(a)=(-1{)}^j$, for $j=0,1,2,3$. These are all the linear characters: in any one-dimensional representation, the relation $ba{b}^{-1}=a^{-1}$ forces the image of $a$ to have square one, so $a^2$ is in the kernel.

In the displayed class order, the full character table isTo construct the last two rows, put $\zeta =e^{i\pi /3}$ and, for $k=1,2$, setThe matrices obey all three relations. The distinct eigenlines of ${\rho }_k(a)$ are exchanged by ${\rho }_k(b)$, so the representation is irreducible. Its traces on $a^m$ are $2\cos (km\pi /3)$ and on $b{a}^m$ are zero, producing the rows above. Their weighted inner products are orthonormal, and the degree-square sum $4\cdot 1^2+2\cdot 2^2=12$ proves completeness.