Permutation groups generated by a transposition and another element

MaRDI QIDQ1198795zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gerald J. Janusz

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

2-generator subgroupsnot solvable by radicalsrational irreducible polynomialsymmetric grouptransposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Symmetric groups (20B30) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

The subgroup \(H = \langle \tau,\sigma\rangle\) of the symmetric group \(\text{Sym}(n)\) generated by a transposition \(\tau\) and another element \(\sigma\) is described explicitly in terms of a graph with vertex set \(\{1,\dots,n\}\) whose edges are the supports of all \(H\)-conjugates of \(\tau\). Application is made to prove that a rational irreducible polynomial of degree \(n\) having exactly \(n-2\) real roots is not solvable by radicals provided that \(n\) is not divisible by 2 or 3.

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