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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ia Paper 3 7D a Solution by
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For a group action, the orbit-stabilizer theorem identifies the orbit of a group action of with the left cosets of its stabilizer subgroup:This is well defined and bijective because exactly when . In particular, for finite ,Under the conjugation action , a singleton orbit of a group action means that for every . This is equivalent to for every , so precisely these elements constitute the centre of a groupThe identity is central, and if commute with every element then so do and . Thus is a subgroup. Each central element is fixed under every conjugation, giving : the centre is a normal subgroup.
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