On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Rob Beezer wrote:
> I can fix the stabilizer, but I am wondering if something more
> systematic is called for - consistently setting _deg in subgroup
> creation, or earlier in general group creation, and with less reliance
> on the largest moved point as a best gue
Stabilizers of permutation groups, and most likely some other
subgroups of permutation groups, do not know much about their
ancestry. In the example below, all the elements of the stabilizer
fix 4 by definition, and so the stabilizer considers itself a subgroup
of the symmetric group on 3 symbols,