In mathematics, the Burnside ring of a finite group is an algebraic construction that encodes the different ways the group can act on finite sets. The ideas were introduced by William Burnside at the end of the nineteenth century, but the algebraic ring structure is a more recent development, due to Solomon (1967).
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