Conjugation by is the group automorphism . Its orbits are the conjugacy classes.
For a subset of a group and an element , its conjugate subset is
Conjugation is a bijection and a group automorphism, so it preserves cardinality and every property expressed using the group operation.
Two group elements and are conjugate when for some group element , equivalently when they belong to the same conjugacy class. Conjugate elements have the same order of a group element.
Two permutations in the same symmetric group are conjugate if for some permutation . Conjugation relabels every permutation cycle, so it preserves cycle type. Conversely, equal cycle types permit a relabelling between corresponding cycles, establishing conjugacy.

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