Dihe­dral groups are non-abelian

WikiLast edit: 15 Jun 2016 15:06 UTC by Patrick Stevens

Let . Then the dihedral group on vertices, , is not abelian.

Proof

The most natural dihedral group presentation is . In particular, , so if and only if is the identity. But is the rotation which has order , so cannot be equal to .

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