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The Orbit-Stabilizer Problem for Linear Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John D. Dixon
John D. Dixon*
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Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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Let G be a subgroup of the general linear group GL(n, Q) over the rational field Q, and consider its action by right multiplication on the vector space Q n of n-tuples over Q. The present paper investigates the question of how we may constructively determine the orbits and stabilizers of this action for suitable classes of groups. We suppose that G is specified by a finite set {x 1, …, xr ) of generators, and investigate whether there exist algorithms to solve the two problems:

(Orbit Problem) Given u, v ∊ Q n , does there exist x ∊ G such that ux = v; if so, find such an element x as a word in x 1, …, xr and their inverses.

(Stabilizer Problem) Given u, v ∊ Q n , describe all words in x 1, …, xr and their inverses which lie in the stabilizer

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1985, pp. 238 - 259
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1985

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