Wreath product
Group formed from the action of one group on many copies of another, based on the semidirect product / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In group theory, the wreath product is a special combination of two groups based on the semidirect product. It is formed by the action of one group on many copies of another group, somewhat analogous to exponentiation. Wreath products are used in the classification of permutation groups and also provide a way of constructing interesting examples of groups.
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Given two groups and (sometimes known as the bottom and top[1]), there exist two variants of the wreath product: the unrestricted wreath product and the restricted wreath product . The general form, denoted by or respectively, requires that acts on some set ; when unspecified, usually (a regular wreath product), though a different is sometimes implied. The two variants coincide when , , and are all finite. Either variant is also denoted as (with \wr for the LaTeX symbol) or A ≀ H (Unicode U+2240).
The notion generalizes to semigroups and, as such, is a central construction in the Krohn–Rhodes structure theory of finite semigroups.