Alternating group
In mathematics an alternating group is the group of even permutations of a set. The alternating group on the set {1,...,n} is called the alternating group of degree n, or the alternating group on n letters and denoted by An. For instance: {1234, 1342, 1423, 2143, 2314, 2431, 3124, 3241, 3412, 4132, 4213, 4321} is the alternating group of degree 4.For n > 1, the group An is a normal subgroup of the symmetric group Sn with index 2 and has therefore n!/2 elements. It is the kernel of the signature group homomorphism sgn : Sn → {1, -1} explained under symmetric group.
The group An is abelian iff n ≤ 3 and simple iff n = 3 or n ≥ 5. A5 is the smallest non-abelian simple group.
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