Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/ia/paper-3/5d/solution

A left group action is a map with and . The group orbit and stabiliser subgroup are
The identity belongs to . If , then ; also . Thus is a subgroup.
For the orbit-stabilizer theorem, the map from left cosets to the group orbit is a bijection: if and only if , which is precisely . Each left coset has elements, since multiplication by is a bijection from to , and the left cosets partition . For finite this proves

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