 Variable-permutation action on polynomials

The symmetric group acts on multivariate polynomials by replacing each variable $x_i$ by $x_{\sigma (i)}$. With $(\sigma \tau )(i)=\sigma (\tau (i))$, substitution gives $\sigma \cdot (\tau \cdot f)=(\sigma \tau )\cdot f$. Thus it is a left group action. A polynomial encoding a combinatorial partition has a group orbit encoding all relabelings and a stabiliser subgroup encoding its label symmetries.