Alternating Group A3 is a Normal Subgroup

A_3 is a subgroup of S_3 in which all the cycles in the set are even permutations. Since every S_n has n! terms and half of them are even and half of them are odd. In S_3 we have 6 terms. Therefore in A_3 we have half of 6 or 3 terms. One of the reason we are interested in alternating group is because they form Normal subgroups i.e left coset and right coset are same.

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