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Möbius transformations permuting three points (Stab{0,1,∞}≅S3​)

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The Möbius transformations preserving a three-point set act faithfully on it: one fixing all three is the identity. Every permutation is realized because a Möbius transformation can send any ordered distinct triple to any other, by composing the two normalizations to 0,1,∞. For that normalized set the six maps are z, 1−z, 1/z, 1/(1−z), z/(z−1) and (z−1)/z. Thus its setwise stabilizer is the symmetric group S3​. Normalizing any other three-point set conjugates its stabilizer to this group.

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