normal_subgroup

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%%visits: 2 They have a sense of invariance, thinking of normal, or orthogonal, it helps to understand that they are not affected by some sort of changing_the_basis seen in [[similar_matrices]]

normal_subgroups are where right coset and left cosets are the same.

[[conjugation]] makes way for normal_subgroups, which make the left coset equal to the right coset

normal_subgrou := When H ⊂ G is a normal_subgroup if it is a subgroup and $h H, g G ghg^{-1} H := The set of all conjugate elements are in the subgroup ## intuition

If G2 ⊲ G1 then G1/G2 forms a group

The kernel of ϕ : G → Im(ϕ) is a normal subgroup of G

Proof: Let K = ker ϕ ⊂ G. We first show that K = ker (ϕ) is a subgroup. Closure: let k1, k2 ∈ K = ker ϕ then k1k2 ∈ ker ϕ as ϕ(k1k2) = ϕ(k1)ϕ(k2) = ee = e therefore k1k2 ∈ ker ϕ. Associativity is inherited. Identity: e ∈ kerϕ as ϕ(e) = e. Inverses For k ∈ ker ϕ then k−1 ∈ ker ϕ as ϕ(k−1) = ϕ(k)−1 = e−1 = e Therefore k−1 ∈ ker ϕ so K is a subgroup.

We want to show that it is normal.Let K = ker ϕ

ϕ(gkg−1) = ϕ(g)ϕ(k)ϕ(g−1)

 = ϕ(g)eϕ(g−1)

 = ϕ(gg−1)

 = e

Consequently by this theorem, [[simple_group]] only have trivial [[homomorphism]]s.

Every normal_subgroup can be written as a kernel of a homomorphism

For every [[homomorphism]] there is a normal_subgroup. They are the same number.

[[special_linear_group]] [[general_linear_group]]. PROOF, since the special_linear_group is the kernel of the determinant homomorphism det : GL(n, ℂ) → ℂ× then it is a normal_subgroup by the [[homomorphism_theorem]] ## rigour ## exam clinic ## examples and non-examples ## resources tags :math:groups_and_symmetries:

ormality of a subgroup allows us to have multiplication on [[coset]] space.

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