Normal subgroup

cosmos 8th October 2017 at 7:09pm
Subgroup

Motivation

Definition

Any subgroup HGH \subset G such that for all hHh \in H and aGa \in G,

aha1Haha^{-1} \in H

That is, it is invariant under conjugation with elements of the parent group

If G is Abelian group then all subgroups are normal.

If the only normal subgroups are {1}\{1\} and GG, the group is called simple.

Proposition. The Quotient set for a normal subgroup is a group, called the Quotient group

lemma. The Canonical projection for the Quotient group is a Group homomorphism