complete group
A complete group is a group that is
- 1.
centerless (center of is the trivial group), and
- 2.
any of its automorphism
is an inner automorphism
.
If a group is complete, then its group of automorphisms,, is isomorphic to . Here’s a quickproof. Define by, where . For ,,so is a homomorphism
. It is onto because every is inner, (= for some ). Finally,if , then , which means, for all . This implies that, or . isone-to-one.
It can be shown that all symmetric groups on letters arecomplete groups, except when and .
References
- 1 J. Rotman, The Theory of Groups, An Introduction,Allyn and Bacon, Boston (1965).