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The key observation is therefore that the <strong>cyclic</strong> C <strong>of</strong> order k<br />

has an orbit <strong>of</strong> length k = |C| if and only if the module for a<br />

primitive k th root <strong>of</strong> unity appears in F Ω. Our version <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Burnside-Brauer Lemma is<br />

Lemma (Siemons & Zalesski, 2002): Let C be a <strong>cyclic</strong> permutation<br />

group on Ω. Then the number <strong>of</strong> regular orbits <strong>of</strong> C on<br />

Ω is the multiplicity <strong>of</strong> the regular module F C in F Ω.

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