Annihilator of a subgroup of a finite abelian group

ID: annihilator-of-a-subgroup-of-a-finite-abelian-group

For a subgroup of a finite abelian group , its annihilator is
These are exactly the linear characters that descend to the quotient group . The character group of a finite abelian group has the same size as the group, so . The annihilator is what abelian hidden-subgroup Fourier sampling measures.

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