{ localUrl: '../page/simplicity_of_alternating_group_five_simpler_proof.html', arbitalUrl: 'https://arbital.com/p/simplicity_of_alternating_group_five_simpler_proof', rawJsonUrl: '../raw/4jt.json', likeableId: '0', likeableType: 'page', myLikeValue: '0', likeCount: '0', dislikeCount: '0', likeScore: '0', individualLikes: [], pageId: 'simplicity_of_alternating_group_five_simpler_proof', edit: '2', editSummary: '', prevEdit: '1', currentEdit: '2', wasPublished: 'true', type: 'wiki', title: 'The alternating group on five elements is simple: Simpler proof', clickbait: 'A proof which avoids some of the heavy machinery of the main proof.', textLength: '1999', alias: 'simplicity_of_alternating_group_five_simpler_proof', externalUrl: '', sortChildrenBy: 'likes', hasVote: 'false', voteType: '', votesAnonymous: 'false', editCreatorId: 'PatrickStevens', editCreatedAt: '2016-06-17 21:38:57', pageCreatorId: 'PatrickStevens', pageCreatedAt: '2016-06-17 21:18:46', seeDomainId: '0', editDomainId: 'AlexeiAndreev', submitToDomainId: '0', isAutosave: 'false', isSnapshot: 'false', isLiveEdit: 'true', isMinorEdit: 'false', indirectTeacher: 'false', todoCount: '0', isEditorComment: 'false', isApprovedComment: 'true', isResolved: 'false', snapshotText: '', anchorContext: '', anchorText: '', anchorOffset: '0', mergedInto: '', isDeleted: 'false', viewCount: '44', text: 'If there is a non-trivial [-4h6] $H$ of the [-4hf] $A_5$ on five elements, then [4jw it is a union of conjugacy classes].\nAdditionally, by [4jn Lagrange's theorem], the [3gg order] of a subgroup must divide the order of the group, so the total size of $H$ must divide $60$.\n\nWe can list the [alternating_group_five_conjugacy_classes conjugacy classes of $A_5$]; they are of size $1, 20, 15, 12, 12$ respectively.\n\nBy a brute-force check, no sum of these containing $1$ can possibly divide $60$ (which is the size of $A_5$) unless it is $1$ or $60$.\n\n# The brute-force check\n\nWe first list the [number_theory_divisor divisors] of $60$: they are $$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60$$\n\nSince the subgroup $H$ must contain the identity, it must contain the conjugacy class of size $1$.\nIf it contains any other conjugacy class (which, as it is a non-trivial subgroup by assumption, it must), then the total size must be at least $13$ (since the smallest other class is of size $12$); so it is allowed to be one of $15$, $20$, $30$, or $60$.\nSince $H$ is also assumed to be a *proper* subgroup, it cannot be $A_5$ itself, so in fact $60$ is also banned.\n\n## The class of size $20$\nIf $H$ then contains the conjugacy class of size $20$, then $H$ can only be of size $30$ because we have already included $21$ elements.\nBut there is no way to add just $9$ elements using conjugacy classes of size bigger than or equal to $12$.\n\nSo $H$ cannot contain the class of size $20$.\n\n## The class of size $15$\n\nIn this case, $H$ is allowed to be of size $20$ or $30$, and we have already found $16$ elements of it. 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