Third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensors play an important role in physics and tensor representation theory. A minimal integrity basis of a third order threedimensional symmetric and traceless tensor has four invariants with degrees two, four, six and ten respectively. In this paper, we show that any minimal integrity basis of a third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensor is also an irreducible function basis of that tensor, and there is no polynomial syzygy relation among the four invariants of that basis, i.e., these four invariants are algebraically independent.Key words. minimal integrity basis, irreducible function basis, symmetric and traceless tensor, syzygy. Nomenclature D a third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensor with components D ijk T(m, n) the space of real tensors of order m and dimension n S(m, n) the subspace of symmetric tensors St(m, n) the subspace of symmetric and traceless tensors O(n) the orthogonal group of dimension n SO(n) the special orthogonal group of dimension n Gl(n, R) the general linear group of real matrices m n = m! n!(m−n)! the binomial coefficient for m ≥ n ≥ 0The next theorem claims that there is no syzygy relation among four invariants J 2 , J 4 , J 6 and J 10 , where {J 2 , J 4 , J 6 , J 10 } be an arbitrary minimal integrity basis of D.Theorem 4.1. Let {J 2 , J 4 , J 6 , J 10 } be an arbitrary minimal integrity basis of a third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensor D. Then there is no syzygy relation among four invariants J 2 , J 4 , J 6 and J 10 .