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Thursday, May 10, 2012

An elementary exercise in group actions


Let G be a group, T a normal subgroup, and suppose that G acts transitively on a set X. Then the induced action of T on X may not be transitive; let TX denote the orbit space. Show that the quotient group G/T acts well-definedly and transitively on TX.


 I plan to do this somewhat regularly... I know that I'm terrible about keeping up a store of problems and examples, which is a key component of mathematical pedagogy.

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