Quotient group
Let be a group, and
an equivalence relation compatible with the group structure on
. The structure derived from
on the quotient set
is called the quotient group of
by
, or the quotient group
, or
mod
.
An equivalence relation on
is compatible with the group structure on
if and only if it is equivalent to a relation of the form
, for some normal subgroup
of
.
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