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Two group actions on are equivalent if there is a bijection such that for all . Such a bijection is equivariant.
The orbit-stabilizer theorem in this form says that the action on is equivalent to the left coset action on , by . This map is well-defined and injective because exactly when , and it is onto by the definition of the orbit. It is equivariant by multiplication.
Thus every transitive action is a coset action. Two such actions and are equivalent exactly when are conjugate: stabilizers at different points of one orbit are conjugate, and a conjugacy explicitly supplies a coset-action equivalence. This last classification is what makes counting by orbit types possible.

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