conjugacy

Noun

Meaning

conjugacy (countable and uncountable, plural conjugacies)

(mathematics) The condition or state of being conjugate.

Examples

By contrast, if n is even, then 4 divides the order of the group, and the subgroups of order 2 are no longer Sylow subgroups, and in fact they fall into two conjugacy classes, geometrically according to whether they pass through two vertices or two faces. Source: Internet

In some cases, conjugacy classes can be described in a uniform way – for example, in the symmetric group they can be described by cycle structure. Source: Internet

He developed the Hering's law of equal innervation to describe the conjugacy of eye movements in animals. Source: Internet

Knowledge of the divisors of the group order G can often be used to gain information about the order of the center or of the conjugacy classes. Source: Internet

McKay's E 8 observation There are also connections between the Monster and the extended Dynkin diagrams specifically between the nodes of the diagram and certain conjugacy classes in the Monster, known as McKay's E 8 observation. Source: Internet

The class number of G is the number of distinct (nonequivalent) conjugacy classes. Source: Internet

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