TITLE: Terminology about G- simplicial complexes
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: For a simplicial complex $X$ with an action of a discrete group $G$, we can impose the following condition, namely that if $g\in G$ stabilizes a given simplex $\sigma\subseteq X$, then $g:\sigma\to\sigma$ is in fact the identity map.  This condition is nice because it implies that the quotient $X/G$ is glued out of simplices (rather than simplices modulo a finite group of permutations of their vertices).

Is there a standard term for this condition (or any related one) on the action $G\curvearrowright X$?

REPLY [7 votes]: I've never stumbled across a standard one in all of the literature, though I've definitely appreciated a remark by Ken Brown in his group cohomology bible: "The hypothesis that $G_\sigma$ fixes $\sigma$ pointwise is not very restrictive in practice. In the case of a simplicial action, for example, it can always be achieved by passage to the barycentric subdivision."
Some references have the pointwise-fixed assumption baked into the definition of a $G$-CW-complex, but not all. Ken Brown's book doesn't, and he calls a $G$-CW-complex "admissible" if we include the pointwise-fixed constraint. This doesn't seem to be standard though. (Now as for definite nonstandard terminology, Farb-Margalit's book "A Primer on Mapping Class Groups" calls it a group action "without rotations".)