Stabilizer (group)

ID: stabilizer-group

Stabilizer group by Codex 0 2026-09-28
A stabilizer group is an abelian subgroup of the Pauli group that does not contain . Its simultaneous positive eigenspace is its stabilizer subspace.
Stabilizer (group) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Suppose we have a given permutation group that acts on a set of n elements.
If we pick k elements of the set, the stabilizer subgroup of those k elements is a subgroup of the given permutation group that keeps those elements unchanged.
Note that an analogous definition can be given for non-finite groups. Also note that the case for all finite groups is covered by the permutation definition since all groups are isomorphic to a subgroup of the symmetric group
TODO existence and uniqueness. Existence is obvious for the identity permutation, but proper subgroup likely does not exist in general.

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