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Group Theory and the Rubik's Cube

Group Theory and the Rubik s CubeJanet ChenA Note to the ReaderThese notes are based on a 2-week course that I taught for high school students at the Texas State HonorsSummer Math Camp. All of the students in my class had taken elementary number Theory at the camp, soI have assumed in these notes that readers are familiar with the integers modnas well as the units one goal of this class was a complete understanding of the Rubik s cube, I have tried to use notationthat makes discussing the Rubik s cube as easy as possible. For example, I have chosen to use right groupactions rather than left Group is some notation that will be used set of , 3, 2, 1,0,1,2,3,..Nthe set of positive integers 1,2,3,..Qthe set of rational numbers (fractions)Rthe set of real numbersZ/nZthe set of integers modn(Z/nZ) the set of units modnThe goal of these notes is to give an introduction to the subject of Group Theory , which is a branch of themathematical area called algebra (or sometimes abstract algebra).

Again, we’re going to rewrite this using new symbols. Let mean multiplication, and let e= 1, a= 2, b= 4, and c= 3. Then, the multiplication table for (Z=5Z) looks like e a b c e e a b c a a b c e b b c e a c c e a b Notice that this is exactly the same as the table for addition on Z=4Z!

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