Sylow 2-subgroups of the countable alternating group (Q792444)

We describe the structure of the Sylow 2-subgroups of the countable alternating group, i.e., the group of all even permutations of a countable set which move only finitely many points. The representation of Sylow p-subgroups of finite symmetric groups as polynomial tableaux introduced by \textit{L. Kaloujnine} [Ann. Sci. Ec. Norm. Supér., III. Sér. 65, 239-276 (1948; Zbl 0034.305)] plays an important role in our description; it generalizes in a natural way to the case of countable permutation groups.