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An invariant is a property or quantity unchanged by a specified class of transformations. The transformations are part of the definition: an invariant of a group action and an invariant set of a measure-preserving transformation concern different transformation classes.

A set is positively invariant when every forward trajectory starting in it remains in it.

This is a dynamical example of an invariant; forward invariance and strict inward trapping are additional conditions.