Seien zwei Permutationen ${\displaystyle {}\pi }$ und ${\displaystyle {}\rho }$ gegeben. Dann ist

${\displaystyle {}{\begin{aligned}\operatorname {sgn} (\pi \circ \rho )&=\prod _{i<j}{\frac {(\pi \circ \rho )(j)-(\pi \circ \rho )(i)}{j-i}}\\&={\left(\prod _{i<j}{\frac {(\pi \circ \rho )(j)-(\pi \circ \rho )(i)}{\rho (j)-\rho (i)}}\right)}\prod _{i<j}{\frac {\rho (j)-\rho (i)}{j-i}}\\&={\left(\prod _{i<j,\,\rho (i)<\rho (j)}{\frac {\pi (\rho (j))-\pi (\rho (i))}{\rho (j)-\rho (i)}}\right)}{\left(\prod _{i<j,\,\rho (i)>\rho (j)}{\frac {\pi (\rho (j))-\pi (\rho (i))}{\rho (j)-\rho (i)}}\right)}\,\operatorname {sgn} (\rho )\\&={\left(\prod _{i<j,\,\rho (i)<\rho (j)}{\frac {\pi (\rho (j))-\pi (\rho (i))}{\rho (j)-\rho (i)}}\right)}{\left(\prod _{i<j,\,\rho (i)>\rho (j)}{\frac {\pi (\rho (i))-\pi (\rho (j))}{\rho (i)-\rho (j)}}\right)}\,\operatorname {sgn} (\rho )\\&=\prod _{k<\ell }{\frac {\pi (\ell )-\pi (k)}{\ell -k}}\operatorname {sgn} (\rho )\\&=\operatorname {sgn} (\pi )\operatorname {sgn} (\rho ).\end{aligned}}}$