Fixed-point averaging for finite transitive actions #
This file isolates the Burnside-counting identity used in the fixed-field part of the Hasse--Weil argument.
For a nonempty finite transitive G-set, the sum over group elements of
the number of fixed points is exactly the order of G.
A finite family of nonempty transitive G-sets contributes |G| fixed
points per fiber after summing over all group elements.
If every point stabilizer maps onto a quotient group, then the kernel of that quotient map still acts transitively. This is the transitivity input for the Frobenius-coset form of Burnside averaging.
A homomorphism of finite groups is surjective when the source cardinality is the product of the kernel and target cardinalities.
Incidence pairs between elements in one quotient fiber and their fixed points can be transposed into stabilizer elements in that fiber.
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Stabilizer kernels, summed over points, are the same incidence type as fixed points of elements in the global kernel.
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Coset form of Burnside's lemma. For a finite transitive G-set, if the
restriction of π : G → C to every point stabilizer is surjective, then the
sum of fixed-point counts over any fiber of π is exactly |ker π|.
In Stichtenoth's fixed-field argument, π is the constant-field Frobenius
quotient and the fiber is a Frobenius coset.
Finite-family form of Frobenius-coset Burnside averaging. If the
constant-quotient map is surjective on every stabilizer in every transitive
fiber, then summing the fixed-point counts first over the quotient fiber and
then over the family contributes one copy of |ker π| per family member.
For a function-field cover, the family is the finite set of rational base
places and X i is the corresponding restriction fiber of top places.
Fixed points of an invariant global type are the disjoint union of the fixed points in its fibers. This is the nonduplicating assembly used when a top place is indexed by its restricted base place.
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Cardinal form of the invariant-fiber fixed-point decomposition.
Cardinality form of the Frobenius-coset Burnside lemma. It replaces stabilizer-surjectivity by the exact decomposition-group order identity used in the function-field argument.