Dihedral group:D26

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Definition

The group is defined as the dihedral group of degree 13 and hence order 26. It is given explicitly by the presentation:

$G:=\langle a,x\mid a^{13}=x^{2}=e,xax=a^{-1}\rangle$

Here, $e$ denotes the identity element.

Group properties

General properties

Property	Satisfied	Explanation
abelian group	No	In the given presentation, $x$ and $a$ do not commute.
nilpotent group	No	Dihedral groups are nilpotent if and only if their order is a power of two.
solvable group	Yes	Dihedral groups are solvable
simple group	No	There are proper non-trivial normal subgroups, for example the subgroup generated by $x$ in the given presentation.

Basic arithmetic functions

Function	Value	Similar groups	Explanation
order (number of elements, equivalently, cardinality or size of underlying set)	26	groups with same order
exponent of a group	26	groups with same order and exponent of a group | groups with same exponent of a group
derived length	2	groups with same order and derived length | groups with same derived length	Derived series goes through Klein four-group of double transpositions.
nilpotency class	--	--	not a nilpotent group.
minimum size of generating set	2	groups with same order and minimum size of generating set | groups with same minimum size of generating set	Not cyclic so greater than 1. $G:=\langle a,x\mid a^{13}=x^{2}=e,xax=a^{-1}\rangle$ is a generating set. Hence is 2.

GAP implementation

Group ID

This finite group has order 26 and has ID 1 among the groups of order 26 in GAP's SmallGroup library. For context, there are groups of order 26. It can thus be defined using GAP's SmallGroup function as:

SmallGroup(26,1)

For instance, we can use the following assignment in GAP to create the group and name it $G$:

gap> G := SmallGroup(26,1);

Conversely, to check whether a given group $G$ is in fact the group we want, we can use GAP's IdGroup function:

IdGroup(G) = [26,1]

or just do:

IdGroup(G)

to have GAP output the group ID, that we can then compare to what we want.

Other descriptions

Description	Functions used
DihedralGroup(26)	DihedralGroup