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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorTim_Porter
• CommentTimeOct 5th 2018

Starting a stub.

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorTim_Porter
• CommentTimeOct 5th 2018

Starting a stub.

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorTim_Porter
• CommentTimeOct 5th 2018

I have added some more material at symmetric group must via illustrative examples and I have included some simple properties. At the moment this is limited to standard stuff.

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeOct 8th 2018

• Bruce Sagan, The symmetric group, Springer 2001 (pdf)
• CommentRowNumber5.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeOct 28th 2018

I am trying to complete the split off of this entry from permutation. Copied a chunk of material from there to here, as need be.

1. Removing redirect for ’permutation group’, will make separate page for it.

• CommentRowNumber7.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeFeb 10th 2020

added these pointers on (integral-)kernels on the symmetric group:

• Mohammad Hossein Ghaffri, Zohreh Mostaghim, Distance in Cayley graphs on permutations generated by $k m$ cycles, Transactions on Combinatorics, Vol 6 No. 3 (2017) (GhaffriMostaghim17.pdf:file)

• Yunlong Jiao, Jean-Philippe Vert, The Kendall and Mallows Kernels for Permutations, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Volume 37: International Conference on Machine Learning, 7-9 July 2015, Lille (publisher, pdf)

• CommentRowNumber8.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 20th 2021

moved a chunk of text on general cycle notation out of the Example section on $S_3$, into the main Idea-section.

• CommentRowNumber9.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 29th 2021

I have touched the wording of the proposition (here) on conjugacy classes being labeled by partitions, trying to make it clearer, and I added pointer to a texbook discussion (Sagan 01)