mathematics, a dihedral group is the group of symmetries of a regular polygon, which includes rotations and reflections. Dihedral groups are among the...

mathematics, the infinite dihedral group Dih∞ is an infinite group with properties analogous to those of the finite dihedral groups. In two-dimensional geometry...

known as the binary dihedral group. The connection with the binary cyclic group C2n, the cyclic group Cn, and the dihedral group Dihn of order 2n is illustrated...

In mathematics, the quasi-dihedral groups, also called semi-dihedral groups, are certain non-abelian groups of order a power of 2. For every positive...

four-group is the smallest non-cyclic group. It is, however, an abelian group, and isomorphic to the dihedral group of order (cardinality) 4, symbolized...

cyclic group C4 and the Klein four-group V4 are both 2-groups of order 4, but they are not isomorphic. Nor need a p-group be abelian; the dihedral group Dih4...

symmetry group. the group generated by all translations and reflections in points; they are isomorphic with the generalized dihedral group Dih(R). Up...

wrote "a3b" as a shorthand for a3 ∘ b. In mathematics this group is known as the dihedral group of order 8, and is either denoted Dih4, D4 or D8, depending...

dihedral group of degree 3 and order 6. It equals the symmetric group S3. It is also the smallest non-abelian group. This page illustrates many group...

generalized dihedral groups are a family of groups with algebraic structures similar to that of the dihedral groups. They include the finite dihedral groups, the...

finite groups, it can be realized as the Galois group of a certain field of algebraic numbers. The quaternion group Q8 has the same order as the dihedral group...

non-abelian group is the dihedral group of order 6. It is the smallest finite non-abelian group. A common example from physics is the rotation group SO(3) in...

longitudinal dihedral angle of a fixed-wing aircraft Dihedral group, the group of symmetries of the n-sided polygon in abstract algebra Also Dihedral symmetry...

the dihedral group of order 2n (often the notation Dn or D2n is used) K4: the Klein four-group of order 4, same as Z2 × Z2 and Dih2 D2n: the dihedral group...

matrix groups or linear groups. The dihedral group example mentioned above can be viewed as a (very small) matrix group. Another important matrix group is...

root of unity. The group Gal ⁡ ( L / Q ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {Gal} (L/\mathbb {Q} )} is isomorphic to S3, the dihedral group of order 6, and L...

are non-abelian groups: the dihedral group of order 16 the quasidihedral group of order 16 the Iwasawa group of order 16 If a given group is a semidirect...

geometry, dihedral symmetry in three dimensions is one of three infinite sequences of point groups in three dimensions which have a symmetry group that as...

S3 is the first nonabelian symmetric group. This group is isomorphic to the dihedral group of order 6, the group of reflection and rotation symmetries...

Quotienting a group by its commutator subgroup Dihedral group of order 6 – Non-commutative group with 6 elements, the smallest non-abelian group Elementary...

an abstract group, and to say that one has a group action of the abstract group that consists of performing the transformations of the group of transformations...

products will not uniquely describe an element of G. For example, the dihedral group D8 of order sixteen can be generated by a rotation, r, of order 8; and...

This permutation group is known, as an abstract group, as the dihedral group of order 8. In the above example of the symmetry group of a square, the permutations...

In mathematics, given two groups, (G,∗) and (H, ·), a group homomorphism from (G,∗) to (H, ·) is a function h : G → H such that for all u and v in G it...

G is an extension of a finite group by either the infinite cyclic group or the infinite dihedral group. "Cyclic group", Encyclopedia of Mathematics,...

explains the name dihedral group. An object having symmetry group Cn, Cnh, Cnv or S2n has rotation group Cn. An object having symmetry group Dn, Dnh, or Dnd...

orthogonal group Oε(2, q) is a dihedral group of order 2(q − ε), where ε = ±. Proof For studying the orthogonal group of Oε(2, q), one can suppose that...

inversion in the origin: the group of all translations and inversion in all points; this is the generalized dihedral group of R3, Dih(R3). E(1), E(2),...

which contain the principal axis of rotation, are labeled vertical (σv) or dihedral (σd). Inversion (i ) is a more complex operation. Each point moves through...

finite group is the number of its elements. If a group is not finite, one says that its order is infinite. The order of an element of a group (also called...