Abstract
We are concerned here with the question of which finite groups and vector spaces possess subsets which are moved by every non-identity automorphism (in the vector-space case—non-singular linear transformation). We find that this is the case for all but four finite-dimensional vector spaces (2-, 3-, and 4-dimensional space over Z2, 2-dimensional space over Z3), and for all finite groups except for those corresponding to the vector-space exceptions, and the quaternion group of order eight. The question was first posed to the authors, in the vector-space case, by Morris Marx.
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