Since each finite group $G$ can be considered as a subgroup of the symmetric group, by Cayley's theorem, we might see the elements of $G$ as permutations $\pi$. Consider for each $\pi \in G$ the set: $$X(\pi) := \{ (\pi(i),\pi(j)) | 1 \le i < j \le |G| \}$$ Then the Jaccard similarity-kernel, which is positive definite, is: $$J(\pi,\pi'):= \frac{ |X(\pi) \cap X(\pi')|}{|X(\pi) \cup X(\pi')|}$$ We can consider the matrix $$M = (J(g,h)_{g,h \in G})$$ ordered somehow by an ordering of $G$. Since $J$ is a kernel and a similarity, we can write the distance between two elements in $G$ as: $$d(g,h) = \sqrt{J(g,g) + J(h,h)-2J(g,h)} = \sqrt{2-2J(g,h)}$$ A similarity $s:X\times X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is defined in Encyclopedia of Distances as: 1) $s(x,y) \ge 0 \forall x,y \in X$ 2) $s(x,y) = s(y,x) \forall x,y \in X$ 3) $s(x,y) \le s(x,x) \forall x,x \in X$ 4) $s(x,y) = s(x,x) \iff x=y$ A positive definite kernel $k$ is a positive definite function on some set $X$. A "kernel-similarity" is a function $f$ which is a kernel and a similiarity. One can prove that the above Jaccard function is a kernel-similarity. My question is, if one can gain any insight for finite groups by studying properties of the Euclidean geometry of the embedded vectors $\phi(g)$. For instance the matrix $M$ is a Gram-Matrix of linear independent vectors, hence one can look at the volume of these vectors: $$\operatorname{vol}(G): = \sqrt{\det(M_G)}$$ Here is some SAGEMATH code which implements this: from sage.matrix.operation_table import OperationTable def Jaccard(A,B): XA = set([ (x,A[x]) for x in range(len(A))]) XB = set([ (x,B[x]) for x in range(len(A))]) print(XA,XB) return QQ(len(XA.intersection(XB)))/QQ(len(XA.union(XB))) def distJ(A,B): return sqrt(Jaccard(A,A)+Jaccard(B,B)-2*Jaccard(A,B)) import itertools def Jaccard(A,B): pairs = list(itertools.combinations(range(0, len(A)), 2)) XA = set([ (A[x],A[y]) for x,y in pairs]) XB = set([ (B[x],B[y]) for x,y in pairs]) return QQ(len(XA.intersection(XB)))/QQ(len(XA.union(XB))) def GramMatrix(finiteGroup): G = finiteGroup O = OperationTable(G,operator.mul,names="elements") M = matrix([[ Jaccard(Permutation([xx+1 for xx in x]),Permutation([yy+1 for yy in y])) for x in O.table()] for y in O.table()],ring=QQ) #RDF) return M def regRepr(finiteGroup): G = finiteGroup O = OperationTable(G,operator.mul,names="elements") #print(O.table()) ll = [ Permutation([xx +1 for xx in x]).to_matrix() for x in O.table()] return ll rD4 = (regRepr(DihedralGroup(4))) #print(rD4) GD4 = GramMatrix(DihedralGroup(4)) vecs = GD4.columns() print(vecs) for M in rD4: print("--") for v in vecs: print(v,M*v) print(M*v in vecs) groups = [SymmetricGroup(2),CyclicPermutationGroup(3),CyclicPermutationGroup(4),KleinFourGroup(),CyclicPermutationGroup(5),CyclicPermutationGroup(6),SymmetricGroup(3),QuaternionGroup(),DihedralGroup(5),AlternatingGroup(4),SymmetricGroup(4),DihedralGroup(8)] for G in groups: #G = DihedralGroup(4) print("Group G:=") print(G) M = GramMatrix(G) print("Gram-Matrix:") print(M) print("cholesky = ") print(M.cholesky()) print("characteristic-polynomial of Gram-Matrix=") print(factor(M.charpoly())) print("Volume of G:") print(sqrt(M.det())) Thanks for your help!