and a natural action of
Moreover the orbit of
.
Lemma
In each case when a direct product
acts on a set
,
we obtain both a natural action of
on the set of orbits of
:
on the set of orbits of
:
under
is the set consisting of
the orbits of
on
that form
, while the orbit of
under
is the set consisting of the orbits of
on
that form
, and therefore the following
identity holds:
In particular each action of the form
can be considered as an action of
on
or
as an action of
on
.
The corresponding result on wreath products is due to W. Lehmann, and it reads as follows:
if
.
Lemma
The following mapping is a bijection:
is defined by
In particular,
Proof: It is easy to see that is well defined.
In order to prove that
is injective assume
, so that there exist
such that
But this implies
for each Therefore there must exist, for each
such that
Summing up there exist
for which
, and so
In order to show that is surjective assume that
Defining
in such a way that
, say
for all
, then, for
defined as above,
which gives
and it completes the proof.
Exercises