Abstract:
The paper gives a description the permutations from the alternating group An that, for a given positive integer k⩾4, cannot be presented as a product of two permutations each of which contains only cycles of lengths 1 and 4 in the expansion into independent cycles. We construct a set Qk such that, for each n from Qk, the group An contains a permutation not representable in the above form. We give answers to two questions of Brenner and Evans on the representability of even permutations in the form of a product of two permutations of a given order k.
Citation:
V. G. Bardakov, “Even permutations not representable in the form of a product of two permutations of given order”, Mat. Zametki, 62:2 (1997), 169–177; Math. Notes, 62:2 (1997), 141–147
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\jour Math. Notes
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This publication is cited in the following 2 articles:
F. M. Malyshev, “Realization of permutations of even degree by products of three fixed-point-free involutions”, Sb. Math., 215:12 (2024), 1720–1754
V. G. Bardakov, “Computation of commutator length in free groups”, Algebra and Logic, 39:4 (2000), 224–251