A group 
acts freely on a set 
if no nonidentity element
of 
fixes a point
of 
. Equivalently, the isotropy
group of every point is the trivial
group.
Freely
See also
Effective Action, Free Action, Group, Group Action, Group Fixed Point, Group Orbit, Group Representation, Isotropy Group, Lie Group Quotient Space, Matrix Group, Topological Group, Transitive Group ActionPortions of this entry contributed by Todd Rowland
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