is a subgroup of
in which all the cycles in the set are even permutations. Since every
has
terms and half of them are even and half of them are odd. In
we have
terms. Therefore in
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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