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Cayley diagram

C8 #10

order8
nilpotency class1
isoclinismisoclinic class of C1
automorphismAut(G) = C22 (order 4) · Inn(G) = C1 · Out(G) = C22
holomorphG ⋊ Aut(G) = AGL(1,ℤ/8)
homologyAbelianization (H1) = G · Schur multiplier (H2) = C1

Aliases

cyclicC8

Subgroups

subgroupG/H
centerGC1
commutatorC1G
Frattini, cosocleC4C2
socle, prime radicalC2C4
LCSG ▷ C1
UCSC1 ◁ G
LECSG ▷ C4 ▷ C2 ▷ C1

4 conjugacy classes of subgroups.

Full subgroup data →

Presentation

minimal degreeμ(G) = 8
transitive degreeμt(G) = 8

A minimal faithful permutation representation — 1 generator on 8 points:

(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Conjugacy classes & character table

C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8
size11111111
order18482848
χ111111111
χ21ζiζ3-1−ζ−i−ζ3
χ31i-1−i1i-1−i
χ41ζ3−iζ-1−ζ3i−ζ
χ51-11-11-11-1
χ61−ζi−ζ3-1ζ−iζ3
χ71−i-1i1−i-1i
χ81−ζ3−i−ζ-1ζ3iζ

Here ζ is a primitive root of unity of order 8 (ζ8 = 1); i = ζ2.

Relationships

center ofM32, #131, C3⋊C16, …
derived subgroup ofD16, SD32, Q32, …
Frattini subgroup ofC16, C2×C16, M32, …
Fitting subgroup ofC8×A5, #91145, A5⋊C16, …
maximal subgroup ofC16, C2×C8, M16, …
maximal normal subgroup ofC16, C2×C8, M16, …
maximal quotient ofC16, C2×C8, C3⋊C8, …
outer automorphism group ofD17, SD64, #3928, …

GAP

Construct this group in GAP via the SmallGroups library:

gap> SmallGroup(8, 1);