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Cayley Table
The Cayley table has four quadrants shown here in red,green,blue and orange, each of these quadrants is similar to the Cayley table for a cyclic group:
{1,1} | {r,1} | {r²,1} | {1,m} | {r,m} | {r²,m} |
{r,1} | {r²,1} | {1,1} | {r,m} | {r²,m} | {1,m} |
{r²,1} | {1,1} | {r,1} | {r²,m} | {1,m} | {r,m} |
{1,m} | {r,m} | {r²,m} | {1,1} | {r,1} | {r²,1} |
{r,m} | {r²,m} | {1,m} | {r,1} | {r²,1} | {1,1} |
{r²,m} | {1,m} | {r,m} | {r²,1} | {1,1} | {r,1} |
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Cayley Graph
There are two cycles that go in opposite directions
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Cyclic Notation
The two generators are:
- A complete cycle
- A set of 2-element cycles which swap opposite points
(1,2,3..n) , ( 1 n ) ( 2 (n-1)… )
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Group Presentation
Thereare two generators, r (for rotate) is like a cyclic group, and m (for mirror) which flips the shape over.
<r , m | rn =1,r² = 1, m r m= r-1>
or equivalently:
<x , y | x² = y² = xyn = 1>
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Group Representation
One generator is a rotation of the identity matrix through 90° (the diagonal from bottom-left to top-right), the other is the nth root of the identity matix (such that lesser roots are not identity). See this page for information about taking roots of a matrix. One a matrix which will do this is an n×n matrix on the right:
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