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A subgroup is normal whenIts left and right cosets then agree, and multiplicationis 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 areThe kernel is normal becausewhenever . Conversely, if , the quotient mapis a homomorphism with kernel . The image of any homomorphism is closed under products and inverses, so it is a subgroup of . Finally, the mapis well defined and bijective and preserves multiplication. This is the first isomorphism theorem.
DefineEuler's formula shows that is a homomorphism, its image is the complex unit circle, and its kernel is . The first isomorphism theorem therefore givesThe 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 .