Group action on power set

cosmos 13th October 2017 at 8:11pm
Group action

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If Group acts on a set SS, it will also act on the set of all subsets (Power set).

Definition. Basically gU={guuU}g\cdot U = \{ g\cdot u | u \in U\} (the set obtained by aplying gg to the elements of the subset). This defines a Group action

Can also restrict action to the set of subsets of a given cardinality. This is because the group action is always an injection (as can be seen by thinking of inverses), so it preserves set cardinality.

We can look at the Stabilizer subgroup, GUG_U

Proposition. Let GG acnt on SS. Let USU \subset S. Then G=GUG= G_U \Leftrightarrow UU is an union of some GG orbits on SS.