Rubik's Cube group by rotations of the centre pieces, the second solely by symmetries of the corners, and the third solely by symmetries of the edges. The latter two factors are examples of wreath products. The simple groups that occur as quotients in the composition series of the standard cube group (i.e. ignoring centre piece rotations) are formula_37, formula_38, formula_30 (7 times), and formula_31 (12 times). Rubik's Cube group The Rubik’s Cube group is a group formula_1 that represents the structure of the Rubik's Cube mechanical puzzle. Each element of the set formula_2 corresponds to a cube move, which is the effect of
Rubik's Cube group define orientation. One choice is the following group, given by generators (the last generator is a 3 cycle on the edges): Since "C" is a normal subgroup and the intersection of "C" and "C" is the identity and their product is the whole cube group, it follows that the cube group "G" is the semi-direct product of these two groups. That is Next we can take a closer look at these two groups. The structure of "C" is since the group of rotations of each corner (resp. edge) cube is formula_30 (resp. formula_31), and in each case all but one