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Simplicity of the alternating group A5
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The conjugacy classes of
A
5
have sizes
1
,
15
,
20
,
12
,
12.
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A normal subgroup is a union of these classes containing the identity. No proper nontrivial such union has size dividing
60
, so Lagrange's theorem proves that
A
5
is simple.
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