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Group Actions · Hard problem

S5S_5 acts on the 1010 two-element subsets of {1,2,3,4,5}\{1,2,3,4,5\} by σ⋅{a,b}={σ(a),σ(b)}\sigma\cdot\{a,b\}=\{\sigma(a),\sigma(b)\}. How many of the 1010 subsets are fixed (setwise) by the permutation σ=(1 2 3)\sigma=(1\,2\,3)?