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Cayley diagram

D8 #35

order16
nilpotency class3
isoclinismisoclinic class of D8
automorphismAut(G) = AGL(1,ℤ/8) (order 32) · Inn(G) = D4 · Out(G) = C22
holomorphG ⋊ Aut(G) = #489347
homologyAbelianization (H1) = C22 · Schur multiplier (H2) = C2

Aliases

dihedralD8

Subgroups

subgroupG/H
center, socleC2D4
commutator, Frattini, cosocleC4C22
LCSG ▷ C4 ▷ C2 ▷ C1
UCSC1 ◁ C2 ◁ C4 ◁ G
LECSG ▷ C4 ▷ C2 ▷ C1

11 conjugacy classes of subgroups.

Full subgroup data →

Presentation

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

A minimal faithful permutation representation — 2 generators on 8 points:

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

Polycyclic presentation:

2^4|c^2=d,b^a=bc,c^a=cd,c^b=cd

Conjugacy classes & character table

C1C2C3C4C5C6C7
size1122244
order1248822
χ11111111
χ211111-1-1
χ3111-1-11-1
χ4111-1-1-11
χ522-20000
χ62-202−200
χ72-20−2200

Relationships

Fitting subgroup ofD8×A5, #11751545, #14514771, …
maximal subgroup ofD16, SD32, C2×D8, …
maximal normal subgroup ofD16, SD32, C2×D8, …
maximal quotient of#102, #107, D16, …

GAP

Construct this group in GAP via the SmallGroups library:

gap> SmallGroup(16, 7);