The group action law gives
(1)
Thus is a bijection with inverse , hence a permutation of . Also, for every ,
(2)
Therefore the assignment takes values in the symmetric group and satisfies
(3)
It is a group homomorphism, with the group product on the right interpreted as composition of permutations.

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