Transitive subgroup of the symmetric group

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hedipaldi

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Dec 16, 2014

Hi,
I need help in proving the following statement:
An abelian,transitive subgroup of the symmetric group Sn is cyclic,generated by an n-cycle.
Thank's in advance

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