Paper 1, Section I, G

Geometry and Groups
Part II, 2011

Let GG be a finite subgroup of SO(3)\mathrm{SO}(3) and let Ω\Omega be the set of unit vectors that are fixed by some non-identity element of GG. Show that the group GG permutes the unit vectors in Ω\Omega and that Ω\Omega has at most three orbits. Describe these orbits when GG is the group of orientation-preserving symmetries of a regular dodecahedron.