Conjugacy class
A conjugacy class is a particular subset of a group.
Let
be a group. Consider the action of
on itself by inner automorphisms. The orbits of
are then called conjugacy classes. By expanding the definition, it is easy to show that two elements
and
are in the same conjugacy class iff there is an element
such that
.
Two subsets
and
of
are called conjugate if there exists
for which
is the image of
under
.
The character of any group
are constant on conjugacy classes.
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