Equality of Cycles

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Theorem

Let $S_n$ denote the symmetric group on $n$ letters.

Let $\rho, \sigma \in S_n$ both be $k$-cycles of $S_n$.


Then $\rho = \sigma$ iff they are identical when written with the lowest element first.


Proof

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