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Normal Subgroups and Cosets

For , the subgroup is normal in exactly when for every .

Lemma 7.3

Suppose . Then iff

for all .

Proof

If , then gives for every , so . Applying the same argument to gives , hence .

Conversely, if for every , then for , so for some . Therefore , and .

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