Fibres of maps between orbit spaces #
If H has finite index in K, every fibre of the map from H-orbits to K-orbits
is finite. The cosets of H in K cover each fibre by translating a representative of
the larger orbit. This applies even when the ambient action has nontrivial stabilizers.
When the stabilizer of the representative acts trivially on the coset space, distinct
cosets give distinct H-orbits. The resulting equivalence counts the fibre by the
subgroup index, with no finite-index assumption. For an infinite index, both Nat.card
and the index are zero.
In general, the stabilizer of the representative acts on the coset space, and its orbit space is exactly the fibre of the map between orbit spaces. Thus two cosets give the same point of the fibre precisely when they lie in the same stabilizer orbit. In geometric applications satisfying the relevant hypotheses, these identifications can describe ramification.
A coset determines a point in the fibre over the orbit of x.
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The coset-to-fibre map sends a coset to the orbit of its inverse translate.
Every fibre of the orbit map for a finite-index subgroup inclusion is finite.
The fibre over the orbit of x is the orbit space for the action of the stabilizer of
x on the cosets of the smaller subgroup.
The stabilizer acts by left translation. Two cosets determine the same smaller-subgroup orbit precisely when they lie in the same stabilizer orbit.
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The stabilizer-orbit equivalence sends the orbit of a coset to the smaller-subgroup orbit of the corresponding inverse translate.
The cardinality of an orbit-map fibre is the number of stabilizer-orbits on the subgroup coset space. Several cosets can lie in one stabilizer orbit and hence determine the same point of the fibre. In geometric applications satisfying the relevant hypotheses, these identifications can describe ramification.
If the stabilizer acts trivially on the coset space, the fibre of an orbit map is indexed exactly by the cosets of the smaller subgroup in the larger one.
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A coset maps to the smaller-subgroup orbit of the inverse translate.
The fibre cardinality equals the subgroup index when the stabilizer acts trivially on the coset space.