Let $G=PSL(n,q)$ be the projective linear group over $\mathbb{F}\_q$ and let $\sigma$ be an **outer** automorphism of $G$. (The description of outer automorphism group of $PSL(n,q)$ is well-known, see for example [Wilson's
book](http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=lYMAg_Sj7hUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=finite+simple+groups+wilson&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vWUdT4KVNoT00gH6qYnZCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=finite%20simple%20groups%20wilson&f=false), Theorem 3.2, page 50.)


The group $G$ acts on $G$ by $g\cdot h=gh\sigma(g^{-1})$ for all $g,h\in G$.
The orbits of this action are called *$\sigma$-twisted conjugacy classes*.


My question is the following:



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Possible idea:


Let $g\in G$. The $\sigma$-twisted conjugacy class of $g$ can be realized as a conjugacy class of the semidirect product $G\rtimes\langle\sigma\rangle$. 


In this context, the question would be the following:



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The motivation for my question is the following:


Let $p$ be a prime number. Since there are no conjugacy classes of size $2p$ in finite simple groups (see [this](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/75565/finite-simple-groups-and-conjugacy-classes-with-2p-elements) post), I would like to prove that there are no twisted conjugacy classes of $PSL(n,q)$ of size $2p$. 



Sizes of twisted conjugacy classes of $PSL(n,q)$
My inclination at first is to be skeptical: Is there any numerical evidence?. The setting of the question is perhaps nonstandard, since for finite groups of Lie type the starting point for this kind of twisting has more often been the ambient algebraic group. Much of this is influenced by papers and lecture notes of Springer and Steinberg, where graph automorphisms get combined with Frobenius maps. (For instance, there is a more recent note by Springer "Twisted conjugacy in simply connected groups" in *Transformation Groups*, 2006, which builds on some of the older work.) 


Aside from that, not enough solid motivation for the question has been provided,
since "twisted" conjugacy classes aren't at first sight all that close to the usual conjugacy classes. To compute sizes of orbits under a finite group action, the typical method is to consider the order of the isotropy groups. Here I'm not sure what is true, but at the least it's important to work through the simplest case $n=3$ in detail. Here the classes of the simple groups in question are well known: see for instance the 1973 paper by Simpson-Frame in *Canad. J. Math.*, where classes and characters are worked out concretely. But it's less clear how to sort out the isotropy groups of the "twisted" conjugacy classes. 


