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Quotient group

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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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