nLab orbit type

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In discussion of topological G-spaces (such as in equivariant homotopy theory and/or equivariant differential topology) by an orbit type one means the isomorphism class of orbits of the equivariance group.

Since every orbit of a group GG (typically taken to be a topological group) is isomorphic, as a topological G-space, to a coset space G/HG/H, and since these coset spaces, in turn, are isomorphic to each other precisely if the subgroups HH are conjugate to each other (see also at orbit category), the GG-orbit types are often identified with the conjugacy classes (H)(H) of the subgroups of GG.

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