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Burnside's lemma

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Also known as Burnside's counting theorem, Cauchy–Frobenius lemma, Cauchy-Frobenius lemma, orbit-counting theorem

lemma stating that, given a finite group G acting on a set, the number of orbits times |G| equals the sum (over every element of G) of the numbers of fixed points

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discoverer or inventor
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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