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John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…aztfm nprofile1q…ddnqz nprofile1q…sn7dy nprofile1q…aral2 - Nice! I ...

- Nice! I was wondering why the formula was just a single quotient, as in the groupoid cardinality of the weak quotient of a set by a group action, rather than a sum of quotients as in Burnside's lemma for counting the set of orbits of a group action. The only case where those two match are when the action is free!

But looking at the paper I see some sums of quotients, so it looks like they've been repackaged as a single quotient.

Still, the groupoid cardinality would be fun to see, because it should be simpler (as usual).