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Let f: {1,…,12}→ Z12 be a tone row. The preimages of the six tritone pairs {0,6},{1,7},…,{5,11} partition the domain {1,…,12} into six 2-sets. There are 554 D12-orbits of these partitions which correspond to Gauss words. Gauss words can be represented as functions of restricted growth from {1,…,12} to {1,…,6} where each element of the range occurs exactly twice. Franck Jedrzejewski computed the serial groups of tone rows. All tone rows of the orbit (D12 × D12)(f) determine the same Gauss word and the same serial group as f. Hence, these are properties of the orbit of f. According to F. Jedrzejewski there are 26 non-isomorphic serial groups and their orders lie between 24 and 12!.

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The following tables were found in a paper by Franck Jedrzejewski: They show the GAP-index of the serial group in the list of all 301 transitive groups on {1,…,12}, the order of the group, the numbers of chord diagrams which yield this serial group, and some information on the block types of these groups.

r |G| Chord diagrams Blocks
12 24 358,554 B1
28 48 444,509 B1
54 96 186 B2
81 144 1,381, 553 B3
86 192 491,549 B3
118 216 50,359, 474 B4
125 288 487 B3
151 384a 414 B6
152 384b 383,497,507,508 B6
154 384c 136,536 B2
156 432 248 B4
185 768a 157,552 B6
186 768b 348,530 B6
193 768c 490 B2
217 1296 247,516 B4
218 1320 103,161,184,241,395,417,448,510
240 2304 43,351,440,537 B5
248 2592 364 B4
260 4608 544 B5
267 5184 11,282,303 B8
270 7680 42,61,111,347,355,382,412,441,504,538,551 B9
288 28800 24,51,56,150,163,183,252,332,371,376,419,420,439,481,514 B7
293 46080 109,185,346,350,357,488,531,535,546,550 B9
294 82944 170,174,285,289,313,321 B8
299 1036800 3,6,7,26,31,34,36,60,137,142,153,155,168,181,188,190,207,209,281, B7
290,295,305,334,352,362,418,434,482,494,511,532
301 479001600 431 remaining chord diagrams

The Block Systems for the serial groups are

B1 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ], [ 1, 4, 7, 10 ], [ 1, 5, 9 ], [ 1, 7 ]
B2 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ], [ 1, 4, 7, 10 ], [ 1, 7 ]
B3 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ], [ 1, 5, 9 ], [ 1, 7 ]
B4 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ], [ 1, 5, 9 ]
B5 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ], [ 1, 7 ]
B6 = [ 1, 4, 7, 10 ], [ 1, 7 ]
B7 = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 ]
B8 = [ 1, 4, 7, 10 ]
B9 = [ 1, 7 ]

This is the lattice of the 26 serial groups computed by Franck Jedrzejewski. The groups are represented by their order. A red cross on a line connecting two groups indicates that the smaller group is a normal subgroup in the bigger one.


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January 2, 2019