Symmetric groups and conjugacy classes
classification
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alphabetaconjugacyclassesdistinctsymmetricthreeunion
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Let S_n be the symmetric group on n-letters. Fix n>5. Given any nontrivial $\alpha,\beta\in S_n$, we prove that the product $\alpha^{S_n}\beta^{S_n}$ of the conjugacy classes $\alpha^{S_n}$ and $\beta^{S_n}$ is never a conjugacy class. Furthermore, if n is not even and $n$ is not a multiple of three, then $\alpha^{S_n}\beta^{S_n}$ is the union of at least three distinct conjugacy classes. We also describe the elements $\alpha,\beta\in S_n$ in the case when $\alpha^{S_n}\beta^{S_n}$ is the union of exactly two distinct conjugacy classes.
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