Mathematics Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
By Euler's formula, . Factoring out the half-angle gives
Since , the cosine is positive. Therefore
On the Argand diagram, the points form a rhombus. Its diagonal from to bisects the angle between the unit vectors and , so its direction is ; resolving either side along the diagonal gives its length .
A subgroup is normal when
Its left and right cosets then agree, and multiplication
is well defined on the cosets. The identity is , the inverse of is , and associativity descends from , so these cosets form the quotient group .
For a group homomorphism , its kernel and image are
The kernel is normal because
whenever . Conversely, if , the quotient map
is a homomorphism with kernel . The image of any homomorphism is closed under products and inverses, so it is a subgroup of . Finally, the map
is well defined and bijective and preserves multiplication. This is the first isomorphism theorem.
Define
Euler's formula shows that is a homomorphism, its image is the complex unit circle, and its kernel is . The first isomorphism theorem therefore gives
The image of consists exactly of the roots of unity: if , then , while every element of finite order on the unit circle has an argument that is a rational multiple of .
Euler's formula for a connected plane graph is . If the graph is triangle-free, every face has boundary length at least four, so
Euler's formula then gives , so the average degree is less than four. There is a vertex of degree at most three. Delete it, color the remaining graph inductively with four colors, and restore it using a color absent from its at most three neighbors. Thus
Using Euler's formula and the Inverse Fourier transforms of phase factors,
and
These are distributional identities, with the Dirac delta function.
Using Euler's formula,
Thus
Ordering the modes as , let . Then
Consequently
This matrix is triangular, so its eigenvalues are its diagonal entries: