Finite abelian subgroup of the Möbius group

ID: finite-abelian-subgroup-of-the-mobius-group

A finite abelian subgroup of the Möbius group is cyclic or isomorphic to . If it contains an element of order greater than two, conjugate that element's two fixed points to . Every commuting map must preserve these points individually: an interchange would conjugate the element to its inverse. All maps are then scalings, forming a cyclic finite subgroup of . If every nonidentity element has order two, choose one with fixed points ; the subgroup acts on this pair with image of size at most two and kernel contained in . Its size is therefore at most four, giving the asserted possibilities.

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