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Normal Subgroup
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normal subgroup [′nȯr·məl ′səb‚grüp]
(mathematics)
A subgroupNof a groupGwhere every expressiong-1ngis inNfor everyginGand everyninN. Also known as invariant subgroup; normal divisor.

Normal Subgroup 

(also normal divisor of a group, invariant subgroup), a fundamental concept of group theory, which was introduced by E. Galois. A normal subgroup of a group G is a subgroup H for which gH = Hg for arbitrary element g of group G.



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Topics covered include counting of subgroups and proof of the main counting theorems, regular p-groups and regularity criteria, p-groups of maximal class and their characterizations, characters of p-groups, p-groups with large Schur multiplier and commutator subgroups, (p--1)- admissible Hall chains in normal subgroups, powerful p-groups, automorphisms of p-groups, p-groups that have nonnormal subgroups that are all cyclic, and Alberin's problem of abelian subgroups of small index.
 
 
 
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