When is a Lie group action is a local diffeomorphism

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My whole question is actually in the title. Suppose a Lie group $G$ acting smoothly on a smooth manifold $M.$ I am looking for the conditions on the group action or the Lie group $G$ that makes $M$ and $g(M)$ are locally diffeomorphic for all $g\in G.$ Perhaps this is the case for all Lie group actions?

I was pondering about this question sometimes but couldn't get in to any conclusion. This might be obvious for the experts and people with sufficient background.

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If I'm interpreting your (edited) question correctly, the answer is yes: For any element $g\in G$, $\theta_g:M\to M$ is smooth, since the action itself is smooth, and has a smooth inverse $\theta_{g^{-1}}:M\to M$, since $\theta_{g^{-1}}\circ\theta_g=\theta_{g^{-1}g}=\theta_e=\text{id}_M$. Thus each $\theta_g$ is a global diffeomorphism.

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