On some special actions

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Let $G$ be a group and $A$ be an abelian group. Let $\beta$, $\alpha :G\rightarrow Aut(A)$ be two homomorphisms. It is well known that if there exist $\sigma \in Aut(A)$, $\rho \in Aut(G)$ such that $(\beta \circ \rho )(g)=\sigma \circ \alpha (g)\circ \sigma^{-1}$ for all $g\in G$, then the semidirect products $A\rtimes _{\alpha }G$ and $A\rtimes_{\beta}G$ are isomorphic.

However, in one stage of a proof concerning the representation of some special groups, I get that there exist $\sigma \in Aut(A)$, $\rho \in $ $Aut(G)$ such that $(\alpha \circ \rho )(g)=\sigma \circ \alpha (g)\circ \sigma^{-1}$ for all $g\in G$. Is there any interpretation of this formula in group theory? why this might be an interesting property?

Thank you in advance.

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It looks like you've let $\beta=\alpha$. So of course this is true with $\sigma$ and $\rho$ the identity automorphisms. But this is basically a trivial statement.

Not sure whether anything can be done with it if $\sigma\ne\rho$. If there are any examples, I guess they could be called $\alpha$ -equivalent