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For a subgroup $K$ of a finite abelian group $G$, its annihilator isThese are exactly the linear characters that descend to the quotient group $G/K$. The character group of a finite abelian group has the same size as the group, so $|K^{\perp }|=|G/K|=|G|/|K|$. The annihilator is what abelian hidden-subgroup Fourier sampling measures.

Measure the coset state in the common eigenbasis $\{|v_{\chi }⟩\}$ of the group shift operators. Its overlap isThe character-sum cancellation lemma makes this sum $|K|$ when $\chi$ is trivial on $K$, and zero otherwise. Hence, with $K^{\perp }$ the annihilator of a subgroup of a finite abelian group,Since $|K^{\perp }|=|G|/|K|$, this is the uniform distribution on a finite set $K^{\perp }$. The factor $\chi (g_0)$ has modulus one, so the distribution is independent of $g_0$. This is abelian hidden-subgroup Fourier sampling.