Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
The conception of conjugate permutations appears to be due to Rothe. The definition may be expressed thus:—Two permutations of the numbers 1, 2, 3,…, n are called conjugate when each number and the number of the place which it occupies in the one permutation are interchanged in the case of the other.
note * page 7 ‘Ueber Permutationen, in Beziehung auf die Stellen ihrer Elements,’ Sammlung combinatorisch-analytischer Abhandlungen, herausg. v. C. F. Hindenburg, ii. pp. 263–305.
note * page 8 ‘De formatione et proprietatibus determinantium,’ Crelle's Journ., xxii. p. 287.