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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2004 A A1 Solution by
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A group action is a map , , satisfying and . Its group orbit and stabilizer areThe stabilizer contains the identity. If fix , then fixes it; and implies after applying . Thus it is a subgroup.
The map from left cosets to group-orbit points is well-defined, surjective and injective: is equivalent to . Therefore for finite .
For conjugation in , the group orbits are exactly the conjugacy classes, determined by cycle type:Conjugation sends to , so these displayed sets are invariant and each is one group orbit. Their sizes also agree with centralizer orders .
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