S. D. V. Stephens

notes / Studies in Algebra and Group Theory / chapter 7: Finite Groups / From my notebooks

N33 The Conjugation Action (Lecture 25)

In progress: these notes stop partway.

Let . When acts upon itself via conjugation, acts on by . This is a group action, and it is also a group homomorphism The orbits of this particular action are the conjugacy classes in , and the stabilizer of some element