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A Frobenius group is a finite transitive group action on more than one point in which a nonidentity element fixes at most one point and a point stabilizer is nontrivial. Equivalently it has a nontrivial proper subgroup with for every . The Frobenius complement is such a point stabilizer .
The Frobenius kernel is the identity together with all fixed-point-free elements in this action, equivalently
The Frobenius kernel theorem asserts that this set is a normal subgroup, acts regularly on the points, and gives . In particular for .
Brauer's permutation lemma states that an automorphism of a finite group fixes equally many conjugacy classes and irreducible characters. More generally a group of automorphisms has equal permutation characters on those two sets. Indeed, the character table is invertible and intertwines the two permutation matrices: simultaneous permutation of rows and columns preserves character evaluation. Similar matrices have equal traces, and a permutation-matrix trace counts its fixed points. The fixed objects on the group side are classes, not individual elements.

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