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Group action

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automorphism groupnoun(group theory) The group of automorphisms of a given set or other mathematical object, with the group operation being function composition.
permutation groupnoun(algebra, group theory) A group whose elements are permutations (self-bijections) of a given set and whose group operation is function composition.
conjugationnoun(grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
groupnounA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
actionnounThe effort of performing or doing something.
group theorynoun(algebra, uncountable) The mathematical theory of groups.
symmetry groupnoun(geometry, algebra, group theory) A group whose elements are all the transformations under which a given object remains invariant and whose group operation is function composition.
group objectnoun(category theory) Given a category C, any object X ∈ C on which morphisms are defined corresponding to the group theoretic concepts of a binary operation (called multiplication), identity and inverse, such that multiplication is associative and properties are satisfied that correspond to the existence of inverse elements and the identity element.
alternating groupnoun(group theory) a group of even permutations of a finite set
matrix groupnoun(group theory) Any group of invertible matrices over a specified field, with the group operation of matrix multiplication.
coactionnounCollective or collaborative action.
groupoidnoun(algebra and category theory) A set with a partial binary operation that is associative and has identities and inverses.
automorphismnoun(algebra) An isomorphism of a mathematical object or system of objects onto itself.
linear groupnoun(group theory) Any group that is isomorphic to a matrix group.
commutatornounAn electrical switch, in a generator or motor, that periodically reverses the direction of an electric current.
representationnounThat which represents something else.
group functornoun(category theory, algebraic geometry) A group object that is an object in a category of functors; a functor with certain properties that generalise the concept of group.
symmetric groupnoun(mathematics) A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.
orthomorphismnoun(mathematics) A morphism that is also a permutation
mapping class groupnounThe group of self-homeomorphisms of a topological space, modulo homotopy.

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