Solution

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The orbit of under conjugation is its conjugacy class
It contains by using , so the conjugacy classes cover . If , then , and the group action identity shows that conjugating either element further gives the same orbit; hence . If and intersect at , this gives . Thus distinct conjugacy classes are disjoint and the conjugacy classes form a partition of a set .

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