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Burnside’s lemma

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Let GG be a finite group acting on a set XX. Then the number of orbits is given by :
X/G=1GgGFix(g)|X / G|=\frac{1}{|G|} \sum_{g \in G}|\operatorname{Fix}(g)|where Fix(g)\operatorname{Fix}(g) is the set of elements of XX fixed by gg.

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