DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicableaudited 2026-08-16

How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

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An action of a group $H$ on a group $N$ by automorphisms

Definition

An action of a group $H$ on a group $N$ by automorphisms is a homomorphism

$α : H ⟶ Aut (N) .$

Here automorphisms are those of Group isomorphisms, automorphisms and the set $Aut (G)$ . Writing $α_{h} = α (h)$ , this means that every $α_{h}$ is an automorphism of $N$ , $α_{h k} = α_{h} \circ α_{k}$ , and $α_{1} = {id}_{N}$ . Equivalently, by Actions of $G$ on $X$ correspond exactly to homomorphisms $G \to Sym (X)$ , it is a group action (Left group actions, transitive actions, and faithful actions) on the underlying set of $N$ for which every acting permutation is an automorphism.

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Sources

Keith Conrad, Semidirect Products (standard reference, not scraped)

An action of a group HH on a group NN by automorphisms