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The stabilizer subgroup of H for this conjugation group action is its normalizer
Stab(H)=NG​(H)={g∈G:gHg−1=H}.
(1)
If it is all of G, the equality gHg−1=H holds for every g∈G, which is precisely the definition of a normal subgroup.
If instead Stab(H)=H, the orbit-stabilizer theorem says that the group orbit of H has size [G:H]. Every conjugate gHg−1 is isomorphic to H, with group isomorphism h↦ghg−1, so this group orbit is a subset of Ω. Therefore
∣Ω∣≥[G:H].​
(2)
The group action need not be transitive on all of Ω; this one group orbit supplies the lower bound.

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