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The Abstract Group G3,7,16: A Correction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

H. S. M. Coxeter
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Dr. A. D. Sands has pointed out that the following sentence, occurring in (2, p. 60, lines 2 to 4), should be deleted: “Hence Sinkov's group of order 1344 … is the holomorph of the Abelian group {pi}, of order 8 (1, pp. 111–117).” In fact, Sinkov's group and the holomorph of C2×C2×C2 are not isomorphic. For, the holomorph is representable on 8 letters by definition (1, p. 87), whereas Sinkov's group is not representable on 8 letters. To see this, we recall that Sinkov's group (3, p. 584) is generated by two elements of periods 2 and 3 (namely, QP3 and QP2) whose commutator is of period 8. If these two generators could be represented as permutations of 8 letters, their commutator would be an even permutation and thus could not be of period 8.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1962 , pp. 188
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1962

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