A stabilizer subgroup of an alternating group:

None of the permutations move any of the points {1,5}:

Compute the stabilizer of a permutation group defined by generators:

Compute the stabilizer of a named permutation group:

The stabilizer of a group can be trivial:

Subgroup of permutations that leave invariant a list of objects under Permute action:

Check that the corresponding orbit under Permute action contains only that list:

The symmetric group is -transitive and the alternating group is -transitive. It is known that any other group can be at most 5-transitive. The Mathieu group is 5-transitive:

There is just one orbit, and hence it is transitive:

The stabilizer of 1 acts transitively on the remaining 23 points, and hence is 2-transitive:

It is also 3-transitive, 4-transitive, and 5-transitive:

But it is not 6-transitive, because there are two nontrivial orbits now:

The orbit-stabilizer theorem states that the size of the orbit of a point p under a group equals the number of cosets of the stabilizer of p in group.

Take the 3×3×3 Rubik group and compute the stabilizer of point 20:

The number of cosets of the stabilizer in the full group, using the Lagrange theorem:

The orbit of point 20 has length 24:

A stabilizer subgroup computed with GroupStabilizer might be described using more generators than the original group:

The stabilizer of a permutation under conjugation action coincides with the centralizer of that permutation: