Paper 3, Section II,
Part IA, 2011
(a) State the orbit-stabilizer theorem.
Let a group act on itself by conjugation. Define the centre of , and show that consists of the orbits of size 1 . Show that is a normal subgroup of .
(b) Now let , where is a prime and . Show that if acts on a set , and is an orbit of this action, then either or divides .
Show that .
By considering the set of elements of that commute with a fixed element not in , show that cannot have order .