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Cayley diagram

D16 #111

order32
nilpotency class4
isoclinismisoclinic class of D16
automorphismAut(G) = AGL(1,ℤ/16) (order 128) · Inn(G) = D8 · Out(G) = C2×C4
holomorphG ⋊ Aut(G) = #72214802
homologyAbelianization (H1) = C22 · Schur multiplier (H2) = C2

Aliases

dihedralD16

Subgroups

subgroupG/H
center, socleC2D8
commutator, Frattini, cosocleC8C22
LCSG ▷ C8 ▷ C4 ▷ C2 ▷ C1
UCSC1 ◁ C2 ◁ C4 ◁ C8 ◁ G
LECSG ▷ C8 ▷ C4 ▷ C2 ▷ C1

14 conjugacy classes of subgroups.

Full subgroup data →

Presentation

minimal degreeμ(G) = 16
transitive degreeμt(G) = 16

A minimal faithful permutation representation — 2 generators on 16 points:

(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16);(2,16)(3,15)(4,14)(5,13)(6,12)(7,11)(8,10)

Polycyclic presentation:

2^5|c^2=de,d^2=e,b^a=bc,c^a=cd,d^a=de,c^b=cd,d^b=de

Conjugacy classes & character table

C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9C10C11
size11222222288
order124881616161622
χ111111111111
χ2111111111-1-1
χ311111-1-1-1-11-1
χ411111-1-1-1-1-11
χ5222-2-2000000
χ622-20022−2−200
χ722-200−2−22200
χ82-202−2ζ−ζ7−ζ+ζ7ζ3−ζ5−ζ3+ζ500
χ92-202−2−ζ+ζ7ζ−ζ7−ζ3+ζ5ζ3−ζ500
χ102-20−22ζ3−ζ5−ζ3+ζ5−ζ+ζ7ζ−ζ700
χ112-20−22−ζ3+ζ5ζ3−ζ5ζ−ζ7−ζ+ζ700

Here ζ is a primitive root of unity of order 16 (ζ16 = 1).

Relationships

Fitting subgroup ofD16×A5, #14515025
maximal subgroup ofD32, SD64, C2×D16, …
maximal normal subgroup ofD32, SD64, C2×D16, …
maximal quotient of#357, #366, D32, …

GAP

Construct this group in GAP via the SmallGroups library:

gap> SmallGroup(32, 18);