§ EXPLORE · ALGEBRA

Cayley tables, symmetries, cycles.

Interactive explorations of finite group structure. Click a cell in the Cayley table to highlight the row and column that compose to it. Colours correspond to conjugacy classes.

CAYLEY TABLE
Class 1 (1 element)
Class 2 (3 elements)
Class 3 (2 elements)
SYMMETRY PLAYGROUND

The dihedral group D3 acts on an equilateral triangle by rotations and reflections. Click the buttons to apply transformations and watch the labelled vertices move.

PERMUTATION CYCLES

Enter a permutation as a list of images. The diagram shows the cycle decomposition: elements on the same loop form one cycle.

Enter images: “2 3 1 4” means 1→2, 2→3, 3→1, 4→4