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
Prince Rupert's cube the hole through which a cube larger than the original one (up to side length formula_2) may pass. The parts of the unit cube that remain, after emptying this hole, form two triangular prisms and two irregular tetrahedra, connected by thin bridges at the four vertices of the square. Each prism has as its six vertices two adjacent vertices of the cube, and four points along the edges of the cube at distance 1/4 from these cube vertices. Each tetrahedron has as its four vertices one vertex of the cube, two points at distance 3/4 from it on two of