Thursday, 24 April 2014

gr.group theory - When and how is a group of order n isomorphic to a regular subgroup of equal order?

In "Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems" by Morton Hamermesh, Morton states Cayley's theorem: Every group G of order n is isomorphic with a subgroup of the symmetric group Sn, which makes sense to me.



Later the book discusses regular permutations and regular subgroups, and makes this statement: "...suppose that n is a prime number. Then the group of order n is isomorphic to a regular subgroup of Sn." (page 19 in the Dover edition)



Why is the last sentence true? Is every group of any order n isomorphic to a regular subgroup of Sn?

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