Supergroups of alternating group:A5
This article gives specific information, namely, supergroups, about a particular group, namely: alternating group:A5.
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This article discusses some of the groups that admit the alternating group of degree five as a subgroup, quotient group, or subquotient.
Note that unlike the discussion of the subgroup structure of alternating group:A5, this discussion is necessarily not comprehensive, because there are infinitely many groups containing the alternating group of degree five.
Subgroups and quotients: essential minimalist examples
Subgroups: making all automorphisms inner
Further information: symmetric group:S5, A5 in S5
The outer automorphism group of alternating group:A5 is cyclic group:Z2, and the whole automorphism group is symmetric group:S5. Since alternating group:A5 is a centerless group, it embeds as a subgroup of index two inside its automorphism group, which is symmetric group on five elements.
is a simple non-abelian group and
and
are the only two almost simple groups corresponding to
.
is also of index two in the full icosahedral group, which turns out not to be
, but instead the direct product of
and the cyclic group of order two.
Quotients: Schur covering groups
Further information: Group cohomology of alternating group:A5#Schur multiplier, group cohomology of alternating groups, double cover of alternating group
Further information: special linear group:SL(2,5), center of special linear group:SL(2,5)
The Schur multiplier of is cyclic group:Z2.
The corresponding universal central extension (the unique Schur covering group, unique because is a perfect group) is special linear group:SL(2,5), also denoted as
to denote that it is a double cover (see double cover of alternating group). The center of special linear group:SL(2,5) is cyclic group:Z2 and the quotient group is
.
is a simple non-abelian group and
and
are the only two corresponding quasisimple groups.