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faithful group action (Definition)

Let $A$ be a $G$ set, that is, a set acted upon by a group $G$ with action $\psi:G\times A\to A$ Then for any $g\in G$ the map $m_g\colon A\to A$ defined by $$m_g(x)= \psi(g,x)$$ is a permutation of $A$ (in other words, a bijective function from $A$ to itself) and so an element of $S_A$ We can even get an homomorphism from $G$ to $S_A$ by the rule $g\mapsto m_g$

If for any pair $g,h\in G$ $g\neq h$ we have $m_g\neq m_h$ in other words, the homomorphism $g\to m_g$ being injective, we say that the action is faithful.




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Cross-references: faithful, injective, homomorphism, even, bijective function, words, permutation, map, action, group

This is version 5 of faithful group action, born on 2003-10-15, modified 2005-07-26.
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AMS MSC20M30 (Group theory and generalizations :: Semigroups :: Representation of semigroups; actions of semigroups on sets)
 16W22 (Associative rings and algebras :: Rings and algebras with additional structure :: Actions of groups and semigroups; invariant theory)

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