Abelian or not

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Suppose XX is a two-element set and YYis a three-element set. Are S(X)S(X) and S(Y)S(Y) abelian groups?

(Recall that for S(X)S(X) to be abelian, the compositions fgf \circ g and gfg \circ f must coincide as mappings for any bijections ff and gg from XX to XX.

If f(g(x))g(f(x))f(g(x)) \neq g(f(x)) for some xx, the group of bijections is non-abelian.)

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